dannyzmom
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Ok - so I have this neighbor, we'll call her Amanda. She's very nice, a bit intense and a bit neurotic - but she's my friend & neighbor.
Amanda brought her mother to a cooking show of mine in the neighborhood. Mom was very nice. At the end of the show Mom came up to me and praised me up & down on what an "amazing and independent woman" I am and how proud she is of me for getting thru my rough divorce and making this great career for myself so I can be home with the kids, blah blah blah, and how honored she is that I have befriended her daughter and she hopes some of my strength rubs off on her daughter, etc etc etc...she just went on and on to the point of making everyone in the room a bit uncomfy.
Mom made no purchase but did email me the next day asking if I could print up a GC for her daughter's birthday which is in April. We discussed the GC thru PC option but Mom insisted I make a personal GC for Amanda to save Amanda on s/h when she orders (so I could tack her order onto a show rather than have her order thru HO).
Mom dropped off a check under my doormat (mom also lives in our neighborhood) I printed up a lovely GC and left Mom a voicemail about when I could drop it off to her so that it'd be a good time so I wouldn't run into Amanda at Mom's house. Didn't hear back so I sent Mom an email:
Hi xxxxxxx!
Just wanted to let you know xxx's gift certificate is printed up and ready. Let me know when would be a good time to drop it off to you. I don't want to run into xxxx at your house and mess up the birthday surprise. Call me at home xxx-xxx-xxxx or on my cell xxx-xxx-xxxx and I'll swing it by whenever is good for you!
Have a great day!
Hadn't heard from her - figured she'd gone out of town for Easter and planned to call her this week. Well today I get the following email from her...the subject heading was "What a Disappointment" and the email reads:
Carolyn,
I know you have my email address and phone number from previous email. I know you have my street address and phone number from the check you received.
I know xxxx has had her order for more than a week. I know from my visit to her house today, that xxxxx has also had her order for a week. xxxx mentioned waiting on xxxxx to use her chopper, so she could borrow it.
Can you imagine how disappointed I am??? Did it ever occur to you that I might have missed xxxx's birthday??? This is no way to run a business.
I immediately called her and left her another voicemail explaining that I had left a VM and an email and assumed she'd gone away for Easter when I'd not heard back from her...etc...I followed up that voicemail with an email:
Hi xxxxxxx,
I both emailed and left you a voicemail about 8-10 days ago asking when would be a safe time for me to bring you the Gift certificate as I did not want to risk showing up when xxxx was visiting. I hadn't heard back from you so I assumed you were out of town for the Easter week. I know xxxx's birthday is in April...customer service aside, she is my FRIEND - I would never risk her missing out on her birthday present. Had I not heard from you this week, I would have followed up with another phone call or snuck around x to ask xxxxx (Amanda's DH) when I could get the gift certificate to you.
I am sorry for any confusion or if you felt neglected. Please call me on my cell 754-423-0211 and let me know when would be a good time to drop it off to you.
a few minutes later I get the following email back with the subject heading "HOW DAREYOU!!!!":
How dare you insult my intelligence rather than admit your failure. What a crock.
Do you really think that I am so stupid, that I would believe that both the phone company and my internet mail service failed, ...and not you? Or that both the phone company and the internet server lost ONLY your messages, and no one else. Really, Carolyn! Get a grip!
Even if ALL my messages had been lost by both, any professional business person would certainly have followed-up after 10 days, if there was so much as a grain of truth in your story. If nothing less, I would have thought you cared more about your reputation. Funny how neither your phone or email message was lost this time.
Afraid of running into xxxx? Give me a break. Heard of the US Postal Service? A stamp would have done the trick. Its not like you had some big package to deliver.
I came to your party. I came to your door to deliver my check. I'm not coming to you again. I have been inconvenienced enough, and do not wish to be disturbed any further ...especially not on Easter. Use the US Postal Service.
And don't call yourself xxxx's friend. Your definition is certainly not mine, nor the one xxxx was raised with.
THUD. Think maybe she's having a bad day?
Anyway - I dug thru my sent mails to make sure I had indeed sent her an email last week...and then I found the UNABLE TO DELIVER email in my spam box. So I sent her the following email:
xxxxxxx,
Below you'll find the "undeliverable email" notice that was sitting in my spam folder from the email I sent you on the 14th. Had I known the email did not go through, obviously I would have followed up sooner. I am sorry you seem to think I am such a dishonest person and not a true friend to your daughter. Clearly you do not know me. I will not bother you again. The gift certificate will go out in Monday's mail so you will not have to deal with me. You should receive it Tuesday. Please let me know if it does not arrive.
The original message was received at Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
from root@localhost
*** ATTENTION ***
Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----"
...and all the rest of the gobbledygook that was in that notice - I sent her the whole dang thing.
I have not yet heard back from her. Geez louise!!! Did I mention her mother is a recovering alcoholic? Am I to wonder if she has not fallen off the wagon? My stepmother acts like this when she falls off the wagon...sheesh!
Amanda brought her mother to a cooking show of mine in the neighborhood. Mom was very nice. At the end of the show Mom came up to me and praised me up & down on what an "amazing and independent woman" I am and how proud she is of me for getting thru my rough divorce and making this great career for myself so I can be home with the kids, blah blah blah, and how honored she is that I have befriended her daughter and she hopes some of my strength rubs off on her daughter, etc etc etc...she just went on and on to the point of making everyone in the room a bit uncomfy.
Mom made no purchase but did email me the next day asking if I could print up a GC for her daughter's birthday which is in April. We discussed the GC thru PC option but Mom insisted I make a personal GC for Amanda to save Amanda on s/h when she orders (so I could tack her order onto a show rather than have her order thru HO).
Mom dropped off a check under my doormat (mom also lives in our neighborhood) I printed up a lovely GC and left Mom a voicemail about when I could drop it off to her so that it'd be a good time so I wouldn't run into Amanda at Mom's house. Didn't hear back so I sent Mom an email:
Hi xxxxxxx!
Just wanted to let you know xxx's gift certificate is printed up and ready. Let me know when would be a good time to drop it off to you. I don't want to run into xxxx at your house and mess up the birthday surprise. Call me at home xxx-xxx-xxxx or on my cell xxx-xxx-xxxx and I'll swing it by whenever is good for you!
Have a great day!
Hadn't heard from her - figured she'd gone out of town for Easter and planned to call her this week. Well today I get the following email from her...the subject heading was "What a Disappointment" and the email reads:
Carolyn,
I know you have my email address and phone number from previous email. I know you have my street address and phone number from the check you received.
I know xxxx has had her order for more than a week. I know from my visit to her house today, that xxxxx has also had her order for a week. xxxx mentioned waiting on xxxxx to use her chopper, so she could borrow it.
Can you imagine how disappointed I am??? Did it ever occur to you that I might have missed xxxx's birthday??? This is no way to run a business.
I immediately called her and left her another voicemail explaining that I had left a VM and an email and assumed she'd gone away for Easter when I'd not heard back from her...etc...I followed up that voicemail with an email:
Hi xxxxxxx,
I both emailed and left you a voicemail about 8-10 days ago asking when would be a safe time for me to bring you the Gift certificate as I did not want to risk showing up when xxxx was visiting. I hadn't heard back from you so I assumed you were out of town for the Easter week. I know xxxx's birthday is in April...customer service aside, she is my FRIEND - I would never risk her missing out on her birthday present. Had I not heard from you this week, I would have followed up with another phone call or snuck around x to ask xxxxx (Amanda's DH) when I could get the gift certificate to you.
I am sorry for any confusion or if you felt neglected. Please call me on my cell 754-423-0211 and let me know when would be a good time to drop it off to you.
a few minutes later I get the following email back with the subject heading "HOW DAREYOU!!!!":
How dare you insult my intelligence rather than admit your failure. What a crock.
Do you really think that I am so stupid, that I would believe that both the phone company and my internet mail service failed, ...and not you? Or that both the phone company and the internet server lost ONLY your messages, and no one else. Really, Carolyn! Get a grip!
Even if ALL my messages had been lost by both, any professional business person would certainly have followed-up after 10 days, if there was so much as a grain of truth in your story. If nothing less, I would have thought you cared more about your reputation. Funny how neither your phone or email message was lost this time.
Afraid of running into xxxx? Give me a break. Heard of the US Postal Service? A stamp would have done the trick. Its not like you had some big package to deliver.
I came to your party. I came to your door to deliver my check. I'm not coming to you again. I have been inconvenienced enough, and do not wish to be disturbed any further ...especially not on Easter. Use the US Postal Service.
And don't call yourself xxxx's friend. Your definition is certainly not mine, nor the one xxxx was raised with.
THUD. Think maybe she's having a bad day?
Anyway - I dug thru my sent mails to make sure I had indeed sent her an email last week...and then I found the UNABLE TO DELIVER email in my spam box. So I sent her the following email:
xxxxxxx,
Below you'll find the "undeliverable email" notice that was sitting in my spam folder from the email I sent you on the 14th. Had I known the email did not go through, obviously I would have followed up sooner. I am sorry you seem to think I am such a dishonest person and not a true friend to your daughter. Clearly you do not know me. I will not bother you again. The gift certificate will go out in Monday's mail so you will not have to deal with me. You should receive it Tuesday. Please let me know if it does not arrive.
The original message was received at Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
from root@localhost
*** ATTENTION ***
Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----"
...and all the rest of the gobbledygook that was in that notice - I sent her the whole dang thing.
I have not yet heard back from her. Geez louise!!! Did I mention her mother is a recovering alcoholic? Am I to wonder if she has not fallen off the wagon? My stepmother acts like this when she falls off the wagon...sheesh!