The Adventures of the Little Indian Girl

Blizzard... you are stuck at home. You get tired of the minute-by-minute of weather updates showing all day on all the local channels. I think I preferred the soap opera that would be playing at the time. But really, why do we need to hear, "it's snowing! It's windy! Another inch has accumulated! Look at those idiots out in the snow! You really shouldn't be out if you don't need to!" all day! I can look out my window and see it's snowing a lot. It's windy, visibility is poor. No normal person would go out in the blizzard. But apparently we need to be reminded every minute by someone who is not following his/her own advice! 

So, what do you do?! Go shopping online of course! I shopped for clothes, a new phone, and a few other things. I felt ever so productive! 

The aftermath showed a lot of packages that seemed to have left the respective warehouses but just didn't want to be tracked/found. It made the news! Packages sitting in some crate somewhere in UPS or USPS or FedEx lots. Completely understandable I guess. Glad I did enough shopping to qualify for free shipping and so fine, I can't really complain nor can they really do much about it.

I was at the gym the other morning. I saw the usual UPS guy get out of his truck. Usually he comes out with maximum of 10 packages on a "heavy" day. This morning, three days after the blizzard had passed and the roads were getting better, he came out with two cart full of packages. There must have been at least 30 packages in each! It took him over 45 minutes to distribute. And by then I had finished my routine! Then came the USPS man with nearly double the number of packages. Ok, maybe 1.5 times!

Slowly our packages have been trickling in. One package for me was left in the management office, who store the USPS boxes in a separate store room which is locked after office hours. As I got the key to the room and went to get my packages, I was just astounded at the mountain of packages waiting to be picked up by other residents! So, I had to go through at least 15 or so boxes/packages of all sizes and shapes till I found mine! 

Either this was really a backlog or also a culmination of people like me who took being stuck at home to do their shopping online! 

And so the clothes I ordered came...and these brands I usually get have gone and changed the sizes I normally get on me. So, now I have to spend tomorrow figuring out return policies. sigh. what a waste.