Monday, January 4, 2010

The beds.

Just as we sat down to Sunday lunch the phone went. It was the owner of the bed shop. The van with our long awaited furniture was making slower progress than he'd thought and he was only just south of Paris : - 'Thanks for being so patient I should be with you around six'. With that he rang off. So much for being here first thing in the morning and so much for my chance to explain how patient I was feeling. At six thirty, as I was wondering whether to open a bottle of claret for dinner, the phone went again. ' Oh Hi. I'm just passing Cahors , I'll be at the house in about an hour'. At eighty thirty he phoned again (yes, Oh Hi!) to say he was off the motorway and would be with us in twenty or so minutes.

The driver eventually arrived at the front door at nine fifteen last night as bright and breezy as though he'd only been on the road for an hour. It seems he had left the showroom on Saturday afternoon after loading the van but in his ' haste' had forgotten to wear a watch. As a result he was using the clock in the delivery van unaware that it was six hours slow. This only came to light when he turned up for the nine o'clock ferry from Dover to Calais on Saturday night only to discover it was by now two am on Sunday!

I sat in amazement listening to this dysfunctional tale of woe while 'the font' decided that the poor boy must be starving and promptly insisted he sit down to eat something hot. Never again shall I spend a Sunday evening helping to unload beds in the pouring rain. He eventually left at one fifteen this morning, brim full of energy and keen to get on the road to Rheims to load up his by now empty van with cheap champagne . It was only as I lay my head on the pillow that it struck me that the beds arrived on the very day the house emptied. Wilf and Digby sat in the hallway following the unloading of the van with close interest and thoroughly enjoying the entertainment. Digby had that look on his face that seemed to say ' why don't we do this every night?'.

10 comments:

  1. Oh my. I'm getting the impression that many things in France are dysfunctional, or at least, very slow! But, at least you have a bed to sleep in!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Snork...Max! That was funny! I hope you have lots of friends and family back to visit now that you have beds! More people for the boyz to entertain and more belly rubs. More choices for nappies!

    sniffies,
    Bonnie

    ReplyDelete
  3. I'm laughing at the whole predicament! I knew the beds would arrive after everyone left! At least you're ready for next year.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Digby... Lol!!! Silly boy! And I see the toy is slowly goin by way of "chewed up"!!!

    Glad you two got the beds FINALLY!!! What a dingbat in the driver?! You shoul play a lottery ticket with that kind of luck!!! Beds on the same day the house empties...Do you have lottery? If not send me six numbers and I will buy you a ticket next time I go get one for me... :) hugs

    ReplyDelete
  5. Max - He should be!

    KB - Can't blame this on the French it's an all UK example of lunacy.

    SoMe - All we need now are the matresses - not of course included.

    WW - Bizarre - try lunatic.

    Houndstooth - you were prescient early on!

    SR - Dingbat was not the word I would use but I get your drift.

    ReplyDelete
  6. What a funny story - glad to hear at least you now have beds.

    Woos, Phantom and Thunder

    ReplyDelete
  7. Ahem....your account is better than I'd ever imagined. Welcome to 2010!!!!! :-))))

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thank-you very much for your great post..

    ReplyDelete