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Location: 6 String Ranch | We leave the heat of Florida and get to the mountains where it is nice and cool and low hunidity and the CJ Collings is supposed to arrive Friday afternoon. It does and we're not here. The driver takes it upon himself to not leave it although it was not shipped requiring a signature. So now I have to wait till Monday and it gets to spend the weekend in the hot warehouse.
Good thing I got a spare or two to hold me over (lol). |
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Location: SoCal | Sometimes it's difficult to get thru crisis like these. It seems that you're holding up well..... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I have a good therapist. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | delivery guy ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Beal, at least he didn't leave it in the hot sun like a UPS driver did when I got my mint 1868-6p two years ago...the case is permanantly bubbled and the lid is warped just enough to keep it from closing easily...it sat in the carton on its back in 90+ degree temps until my daughter found it when going to ride her bike...it required a delivery signature; we were home and he never even rang the doorbell...so he signed my name...
Hope it all turns out well...
Please let us know how the CJ turns out...That is one guitar at the top of my wish list...
Enjoy! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | There have been about 4-5 occasions when I would check my email to discover that I had a package at my front door.
Bill, at least the Gas Station was open 24/7 and you didn't have that problem! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well it gets better. I was going to have it delivered to Debanjo's house and that would have been fine. But he calls my house to confirm the bill to address. My wife answers the phone. BUSTED. So OK, at this point it might as well come to me dierctly so I had him change the ship to and here we are.
The other one I got is going to Debanjo's so that should work out just fine. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Well, I think the guy did the right thing. If I were a delivery driver, and had a guitar box (especially with a Collings name on it) to deliver and no one was there, I wouldn't leave it on the porch. Coulda been worse, he could have left it, and when you got home it was gone. I can't believe it was shipped without a signature required anyway.
...BTW Beal, I love your "from" sig... :D ;) |
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Location: south east Michigan | I always have things delivered to where I work. I can check them out before I sign for them.
Gee Beal... if you just had some kind of job you could do the same thing!!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | In this economy?? Where am I gonna find a job????
Nobody wants old gas station guys. |
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Location: Tennessee | I used to have them delivered to the office. One Friday when I was out on travel the receptionist called my wife to see if she wanted to come pick up the new guitar so it wouldn't be in my office all weekend. :rolleyes:
Beal ... Oregon. They have some goofy law there that you can't pump your own gas. They have designated attendants to pump the gas. You may not qualify though ... I think maximum IQ for the job is about 40. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Beal:
Well it gets better. I was going to have it delivered to Debanjo's house and that would have been fine. But he calls my house to confirm the bill to address. My wife answers the phone. BUSTED. So OK, at this point it might as well come to me dierctly so I had him change the ship to and here we are.
The other one I got is going to Debanjo's so that should work out just fine. You know, if you need someplace to store this stuff you can always have it sent to my house..... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | IQ is 40........
I could lie and tell them I play banjo..... |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Beal ... Oregon. They have some goofy law there that you can't pump your own gas. We have a lot of goofy laws, because we have lunatics running the asylum.
Oregon - the only state where they don't trust you to pump your own gas, but it's legal to kill yourself. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Can't pump your own gas in New Jersey either, but there's a union to blame for that. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Sounding less than almost perfect as the thread goes on. I Love the CJ though. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Job training video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY |
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Location: Upper Left USA | At work - if someone tells me I never answer my phone when they call - I tell them I have "Caller IQ"...
The smart ones laugh, the others think I'm serious. Just as well. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Oregon. They have some goofy law there that you can't pump your own gas. They have designated attendants to pump the gas. You may not qualify though ... I think maximum IQ for the job is about 40. Every so often some jerk who makes $100,000/year recommends changing that law.
Usually someone else will then point-out that it represents Thousands of jobs in Oregon.
Plus, gasoline usually costs the same or more in California and Washington where you pump your own gas. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I'm paying $2.29 a gallon for someone to pump the gas for me; summer and winter, so I'm not going to complain about it. (But, visiting out of state is a different experience when I have to stop at a filling station, that's for sure.)
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Location: Tennessee | Yesterday here in the land of granola ... $3.03. Self serve. Add a buck a gallon if you want someone to pump it for you. And they charge you six bits if you want to put air in your tires, although they recently passed a law that said if you buy gas they have to give air to you free. Although I'm sure some dope in our state capital is trying to figure out how to tax you on the free air. |
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Location: Right now? | Oregon. They have some goofy law there that you can't pump your own gas. They have designated attendants to pump the gas. You may not qualify though ... I think maximum IQ for the job is about 40. Hey, Stoney, Oregon AND here in New Jersey, also. I believe we are the only two states that has that law. I was twenty years old the first time I ever put gas in my own car and HEY! I went to COLLEGE, Dude! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | by WillaMuse:
HEY! I went to COLLEGE, Dude! :p Robin Williams was speaking at graduation ceremonies at his alma mater..
"I want to give some advice to all the English Majors out there. Practice these lines...
Repeat after me: Would You Like Fries With That?"
So if you are a College Graduate [with a Clean Record] you too are qualified to pump gas in Oregon.
(But I think that you have to 'know somebody' in Joisey) |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Beal, I have no idea where my CJ is!!
The guy ain't talkin and I haven't heard from Dave
AJ :rolleyes: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Dave?
No man, Dave's not here........... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | To close the loop here and so you all know, UPS as well as FedEx evidently have a policy that on shipments above a certain $$ value they require a signature even if it was shipped without the need for one.
The one that went to Debanjo's was delivered a day late too cause nobody was there on Wed and that was FedEx. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Come on up north where gas is only $104.9 a litre!
(and you HAVE to pump your own gas, and pay for it first)
And the whole weekend was near perfect....as long as you weren't near the lightening. (sorry about the smoke drifting down your way in Washington & Idaho.) |
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| Originally posted by fillhixx:
Come on up north where gas is only $104.9 a litre! You all getting hosed out there in god's country.
About 90 cents a litre here - I'm waiting until it comes down after the weekend then I'll fill the truck..lol |
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