When we got home [our airbnb condo home, that is] on Wednesday, around 8:00ish, I tracked my passport to see if it had arrived, and the website said that the driver had tried to deliver it, but could not because there were funds due …. which baffled me, because I knew Rach had NOT sent the package COD …
Two 800-number-over-Skype calls to UPS and UPS.ca later I found out that I had to pay the taxes on the package, but that I’d have to wait until Thursday morning to do it.
Thursday morning I only had to make one 800-number-over-Skype call, but I had to get transferred a couple of times – I paid the taxes – $38 Canadian – sheesh – and to make it all the more pleasant, the first card that I used declined. (turned out to be because I had not told Chase to expect charges from Canad) The nice UPS Canada lady said that probably what will happen is that the driver won’t know that I paid, and the package will get taken back again today, but they’ll deliver it Friday, and by then the info that the COD is lifted will have percolated thru the system. And oh by the way, if you give this autho number to your landlord’s concierge, *maybe* they’ll be able to deliver today ….
What ensued was that the driver called me, and the package did get delivered Thursday. At 9:30, after we got back from all our movies, we drove to a hospital in the suburbs to meet our airbnb landlord – he was in attendance at the bedside of a dying relative – but had the passport on him, so whew – got it. I can go home again!
Thursday’s movies: Art of the Steal, comedy/heist movie with Kurt Russell as a jewel thief who outsmarts everyone, especially his brther played by Matt Dillon, by playing dumb.
Words and Pictures, Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen as the art teacher and the English teacher at a private school who go from dueling over which is more important, words or pictures, to falling in love.
The Wind Rises, a fictionalized anime biography of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.
Thursday’s meals: Coffee at home, Mark had some cereal; Starbucks cookies; apple & waters from the Metro grocery – We do like it better than the Freshco – superior ice cream & yogurt selection, and definitely better produce; and sandwiches & chips & little tomatoes at home after passport retrieval.
Sammich & chips at home
Mounting pile of ticket stubs
