It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We have a Christmas Tree. Yay!


However................................... If anyone has been following our 'Christmas Tree Saga' (see here and here and here and here) – The final instalment is below. If you haven't been reading our 'Christmas Tree Saga' feel free to switch to another Blip now.



…............Sooooooo, yesterday afternoon Ann got a call from a 'WKS' (well known store) saying that our Christmas Tree had arrived in store and we could come and pick it up.
Ann – 'That's great, I'll pop in tomorrow and pick it up.
This morning after my walk I had to have 'home alone snooze time' while Ann went to WKS to pick up our Christmas Tree. Ann went to the 'pick up & collect' point and said:
'Hello, I've come to pick up my Christmas Tree. I got a call yesterday to say that it was ready for collection and I'm very techie so I have all the info here on my phone.
WKS – 'What's your surname?' (Ann tells WKS her surname)
WKS – 'I've seen that in the cupboard. Ann thinks – I've heard that one before. I'll go and get it'
WKS employee comes back clutching a big box and Ann thinks, whoopeee dooo, I've got my Christmas Tree at long last. Ann looks at the picture on the big box. The picture on the big box is of a brown blossom Christmas Tree???
Ann – 'That's a brown blossom Christmas Tree. That's not what I ordered. I ordered a very arty farty white twiggy Christmas Tree.'
WKS – 'What's your name?'
Ann – 'The same as it was 5 mins ago.' (Ann gives her name again.) 'Would you like to see my confirmation letter or the reference number?'
WKS – 'Are you sure that's not what you ordered? It's got white lights.'
Ann – 'I definitely didn't order anything with a brown trunk and brown twigs and I'm pretty sure I didn't order anything with blossom lights because I don't like blossom lights. Surely if you key my reference number into your computer it will pop up with what I've ordered?'
WKS – 'The computers are really slow today.'
Ann – 'That's OK. I'll wait.'
WKS – 'Would you like me to open the box so you can check that it's definitely not what you ordered?
Ann – 'Not really.' 'OK, but if what is in the box matches the picture I know I don't want it. I ordered a completely white twiggy Christmas Tree. I like minimalistic and I ordered it to go with my white IKEA stars and my white candles.
WKS employee opens the big box and the brown blossom Christmas Tree is even worse in real life than the picture on the box!

Ann – 'That definitely isn't what I ordered. I don't want it. Please can I have a refund?
WKS – 'Of course you can. I'll just have to call customer services.'
Ann – 'OK'.
WKS – 'Do you want to come and have a look at the screen. Is this what you ordered?' (Picture of arty, farty, white twiggy Christmas Tree is on the screen).
Ann – 'Yes, that's it. Have you got one of those in stock?'
More waiting around while the 'slow computers' try to work out what is actually in the shop.
WKS – 'We've got six in stock.'
Ann – 'SIX? Can I have one of those? So I actually could have picked up my arty, farty, white, twiggy Christmas Tree last Thursday & then my friends could have seen it when they came round last Saturday?'
….................And this story is getting a bit boring now....................................
Ann was able to take away one of the white, twiggy, arty farty Christmas Trees that was in stock. In all fairness the girl on the 'pick up & collect' point was doing her best and was very pleasant. And at the end of the day – it's a Christmas Tree?!
I reckon if all we have to worry about is a Christmas Tree......................... we've got a pretty good life???
…...........Tis the season of goodwill and all that!
PS – Ann knows she will have to arrange the twigs a bit more artistically than what you see in this Blip. Lol!
PPS - Soon all my pressies will be underneath this. Yay!