31st August 2021
Well the great day has arrived, the new mattress is due. Kelli checked the tracking information and saw that it left Chicago at 08.30am.
We had to collect a dresser from the north side of town, but felt confident that nothing would be delivered in our absence.
The address was a little run down, no one would dare squat in that place, but the piece was decent, so we kept the engine running whilst we loaded it, then made a rapid escape.
Once back we stripped the bed, and I moved the new wood frame into the living area with intensions to build sub assemblies to make it quicker and easier to build up in the bed room.
The bed frame was very well secured, the hardware were all labelled and all the wood parts were individually wrapped.
The product was purchased from Pier 1 and manufactured in Brazil, and once the box was opened I removed the polystyrene pieces, along with a number of packets of white powder ( not sure what they were) and set them aside. I assembled all the middle sections, and fitted the dowels in the main frame components.
Kelli was now anxious about the delivery, as the information on the tracking site hadn’t updated. She then called FedEx again, and spoke to a real person. She was assured that it would be with us by 3.00pm, in the meantime we got on with finishing the French Provincial buffet.
By 4.00pm there was still no sign of our mattress. Kelli primed the dresser I cut down yesterday while I stained the top.
Still not here by 6.00pm, Kelli called FedEx again.
“It will be with you by 8.00pm” the agent responded, the clock is ticking.
9.00pm came, and we gave up and remade the bed, not looking forward to another waiting game tomorrow.
Another Lifetime to go 