Bad news, good news
Oct. 17th, 2008 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularLearned yesterday that a parcel I'd ordered from England, which I'd been told to be patient about because it might take a month or more, was supposedly delivered to my apartment building on September 5, signed for by someone who claimed to be my secretary, and disappeared. Sender said to file a claim with Parcelforce, Parcelforce said I'd waited too long, and the Hellenic Post said this morning that they'd never heard of the tracking number I'd been given.
So I was already cheesed off when I turned onto Leoforos Panepestimiou and promptly almost got run over by some [censored by the Department of Homeland Security] on a scooter speeding down the sidewalk.
On the bright side, my absentee ballot is supposed to arrive today from New York, having been picked up by my parents and Fedexed overseas. (They claim the expense of overnighting it is an extra campaign contribution on their part.)
On the other hand, when the parents say "don't take it to the embassy; I don't know if the people there are trustworthy", that's a sad indicator of the state of the land of the (theoretically) free.
So I was already cheesed off when I turned onto Leoforos Panepestimiou and promptly almost got run over by some [censored by the Department of Homeland Security] on a scooter speeding down the sidewalk.
On the bright side, my absentee ballot is supposed to arrive today from New York, having been picked up by my parents and Fedexed overseas. (They claim the expense of overnighting it is an extra campaign contribution on their part.)
On the other hand, when the parents say "don't take it to the embassy; I don't know if the people there are trustworthy", that's a sad indicator of the state of the land of the (theoretically) free.
