{"id":9575,"date":"2017-12-29T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2018-01-01T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:22:34","slug":"daily_1123_-_hyacinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/daily_1123_-_hyacinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1123 – hyacinth"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe weather outside is dull and gray and so is my mood. So here’s a pretty flower to make everything feel better.<\/p>\n

There’s a story attached to this one.<\/p>\n

Everybody except Eric got books, bought online like almost all my gifts this year. All packages but one arrived on time, and many of them I didn’t even unpack until the evening before Christmas Eve when it was time to wrap all the gifts. And then I discovered that one of the parcels had the wrong contents. I had received someone else’s order. The name and address on the outside of the parcel were mine, the packing list and the contents were not.<\/p>\n

I looked up the guy who was supposed to get those books and he turned out to live in Stockholm. Gave him a call and he came by to pick up the books on Christmas Eve, because they were a Christmas gift of course. He gave me this potted hyacinth as a thank-you.<\/p>\n

He said he had gotten books that were supposed to be shipped to Arvika. So I guess there was an off-by-one error somewhere in the packing process at Adlibris: each package got the shipping label of the next package in line. I wonder how long that line was, how many packages ended up in some other corner of the country, before they discovered their error. If they even did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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