nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:07:12 PM
Panic was starting to set in. I was having visions of me having to unpack every damn box and rifle through looking for TV remote. I was trying to remember what I had already packed when I last remembered seeing it......and then I saw a speck of something under a box. YES THE REMOTE IS FOUND  ...... thank the lord for small mercies.
I was cold so I decided to transfer my packing into the lounge where the fire is, and somehow I must have set a box on top of the thing.. From now on I think I will have to keep to my own area, where I know everything is safe. 
So what about you, have you done anything stupid or funny while packing parcels to post?
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gravid
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:10:20 PM
I once sent half a pastrami sandwich to Singapore and it did not amuse the company. In fact they never ordered from me again. On rye. It was not neatly cut in half. I had just been eating on it and it disappeared.
Never eat on the packing table.
[ edited by gravid on Aug 2, 2001 05:12 PM ]
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:15:19 PM
OMG Gravid, that is funny.  I wonder why they did not order from you again, you gave them extras and it was on rye. LOL
I once got a corner of toast in a parcel, it had dropped off while they were packing and they did not realise. It did not hurt anything so I did not complain. 
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ZiLvY
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:19:21 PM
Good Grief Netta you could have been setting of TV channels all the way across the pacific and back. Garage door openers who knows what, thank heavens and International Incident was averted. Caution old girl, caution!!
Not only that but, can you imagine the angst your family would have had getting up to change channels.
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joice
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:22:56 PM
There is a family in North America that is using my favorite scissors.
Thank the heavens it was't a sandwich!
Joice
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:29:37 PM
Joice You know I have always worried about packing an extra or maybe sending the parcel off to the wrong place, but I never thought I would post our remote control off into never never land.
Zilvy my daughter was having a fit, anyone would have thought it was her TV control........oh wait a minute it was her remote. She was not very happy with me at all because she had only just got this new set a week before and I had already lost the stupid control for her. My husband was blissfully unaware of the events unfolding around him, because he was very happy sitting in the family room with his own TV and control.
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Microbes
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:36:52 PM
I bought my son a new TV a few months ago, and (I should have known better) it was just like the one in the living room, except smaller. The Remotes are identical.
So... Every time his room is a mess (quite often ), and he can't find his remote, the one in the living room vanishes.
They need to put a button on the TV that will make the remote beep so you can find the thing.
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 05:50:40 PM
Microbes my youngest son has a TV set the same as ours and he has a habit of helping himself to the remote as well. I even went to the length of engraving initials into the back of it, but he still helps himself. I don't think our kids' would survive without the remote, they have no conception of having to get up and actually change the channel. It is a sign of the times I guess.
My oldest boy has about 4 remotes, one is for his stereo, another is for his TV, then he has one for his video, and one for his play station thingo. Boy it is tough to be young. 
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Microbes
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:02:07 PM
Yeah, and if your boys are like mine, even with a play station, 40 games for it, a computer, a stereo, a TV, a Nintendo 64, a Minibike, etc., they still say I'm Bored.
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gravid
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:26:39 PM
My new hearing aids have all sorts of adjustments and controls for direction and programing so they want you to carry around a remote in your pocket all the time. I spent extra to get them built into a watch. Looks like a Chronograph with all the buttons on the side but they are for the hearing aids.
I remember a thread awhile back someone lost their keys and had no idea where until a customer sent them back a week later.
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:33:57 PM
My lot have the zodiac (boat) and the car to drive around in and they have a river right next to our house yet they are still bored.
I wish I could be as bored as them, because when they are bored they get to do all the things they like. They go fishing, motorbike riding, boating and surfing ect. Oh to have such a boring life. They don't know what boring is yet. LOL
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:37:48 PM
Gravid do you mean you can turn your hearing aid up or down by using your watch?
I will have to remember to keep my keys out of the way, just in case I send them into never never land.
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rhondalee65
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:45:34 PM
I once shipped a Beanie Baby inside a set of canisters...the woman who won the auction let me know she had an "extra" with her shipment. At the time this happened, my daughter was 2 years old and VERY busy - go figure!
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Microbes
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posted on August 2, 2001 06:47:05 PM
To answer the original question, I have mixed 2 packages up, and sent them to the wrong people. Both buyers where great, and shipped (at my expense) the packages to the rightful owners.
I probably deserved at least a couple of neutrals for it, but got good feedback from both of them (they where both very understanding people.)
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Femme
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posted on August 2, 2001 07:16:48 PM
Hi Nettak
You might want to pay a visit to bitsandbobs' "...Stir the Pot..." thread and put a curse on him.
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 07:34:45 PM
Thanks for the tip Femme I almost missed that thread. He is such a charmer isn't he.
This was a first for me to actually think I had even packed something extra in a parcel, I am usually so careful with everything, but I think my cold must have sent me light headed or something because I really did not have a clue if I had packed the stupid contrl or not. Thank goodness I didn't. Rhondalee I can understand how easy it would be to do something like that, especially with a little one at your heals all the time.
microbes, I live in fear of putting the wrong lable on a parcel, that is something that I check and recheck because I just know that one day I am going to put the wrong address on the wrong box.
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gravid
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posted on August 2, 2001 07:35:30 PM
Yeah nettak - I can run the voume up or down 6db each way and switch mics from wide to directional and switch programs for voice or electronics or self programing. Tells the time too!
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donny
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posted on August 2, 2001 08:04:08 PM
When I worked at the Post Office, a woman came in to pick up an express mail package from her son, who was away at college. She was so happy to get it, she told me the story -
The son had come home to visit the folks, and had accidentally packed up their tv remote when he packed his suitcase to leave. There had been a big crisis at home then, when they couldn't find the remote. On learning the son had accidentally gone back to school with the remote, the woman's husband blew his stack bigtime, ranting and raving and who knows what, and insisted the kid send it back immediately, express mail. She was so relieved to get it back her hands were practically shaking.
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 09:04:05 PM
donny I can well understand that poor woman's anguish, can you imagine the pain of having to listen to someone ranting about the loss of a beloved remote control. Although if he was my husband I would have hit him over the head with the TV.
We know this guy that could not function with out his remote, and I am not joking about that either. It is a very sad case.
Heaven forbid that someone may have to exercise and actually get out of the chair to change a channel. Good lord what would the world be coming to, for some people it would be almost the same as the end of the world.
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mybiddness
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posted on August 2, 2001 09:40:52 PM
Hi Nettak! Nice to see you! The worst mishap I've ever had was when I was cutting a piece of b-flute to fit around a book and accidently cut my beautiful new bedspread along with it.
Gravid ROFLMAO! A half eaten Pastrami sandwich?
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 10:47:58 PM
Hi Mybid it is really good to see you. So did you end up going on your holiday?
I would have freaked out if I cut a hole in my bedspread. I do not do any packing in the bedroom, I have a special room just for my ebay stuff, but I quite often find it spreading throughout the house. My husband hates me letting it spread everywhere, I am supposed to keep it contained. I also have a seperate office and before I started ebaying it was more than big enough, but now I find I am overrun with stuff. So my house has 2 official rooms for auction gear, but in reality it has about 5 rooms that you may find boxes, tape, bubblewrap ect.
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mybiddness
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posted on August 2, 2001 11:08:07 PM
Nettak Do you mean the trip to Colorado? Yes, I went but cut it short by a day or two. Colorado was great but my sis family is so LOUD I had to come home for some peace and quiet. LOL The weather in Colorado was fabulous compared to my part of Texas... the hottest part, I think it's called hell.
As of August 17th I'll have my own air conditioned workshop in our back yard! No more chopping up bedspreads for me! LOL It's going to be decorated in early Elvis decor and will have a big KEEP OUT sign posted on the door. I can't wait!
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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nettak
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posted on August 2, 2001 11:50:57 PM
Yep Mybid I was talking about your Colorado trip. I am glad you had great weather even if it was a tad too loud for you.
That is great news that you are getting your own workshop and an airconditioned one as well, what more could a girl ask for. LOL At least you will be able to spread things out and not have to worry about upsetting someone else. I love the idea about the big "KEEP OUT" sign, that kind of takes me back a few years to the days of cubby houses ect.
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ashlandtrader
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posted on August 3, 2001 11:31:41 AM
Gravid--
Maybe if it had been a TURKEY sandwich all would have been well. :0) That is TOO funny!
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gravid
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posted on August 3, 2001 02:55:26 PM
Yes it is too bad because they would buy a couple hunded dollars at a time and they were real nice to deal with. But I can't blame them. With the weird laws in Singapore about smoking in public and chewing gum or spitting who knows what trouble the customs would give them? Unauthorized importation of biohazard?
Pastrami is pretty smelly when it is fresah. After a slow journey across the Pacific......
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MAH645
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posted on August 5, 2001 07:03:04 PM
I have a cordless phone,one night I thought I had pick up the remote,but I was trying to turn my T.V. off with the phone.And sometimes I pick up the remote to make a phone call.I'll get it right one day.
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