Peapod doesn’t always have the items ordered in stock. In their defense, it’s uncommon in my experience, but it happens. They list these items at the top of every receipt so they’re easy to find.
From my last receipt:
“Out of Stock
The Bake Shop Muffins Blueberry Mini – 12 ct ($0.00)
The Bake Shop Muffins Chocolate Chip Mini – 12 ct
Substituted The Bake Shop Muffins Blueberry Mini – 12 ct”
While technically still accurate, it doesn’t instill me with a lot of confidence.
On the one hand, I wrote down the wrong address for the Music Box Theatre, where Aaron Sorkin’s play (“The Farnsworth Invention“) is running on Broadway. I feel appropriately silly for hailing a cab to go three blocks, only to end up two minutes late anyway.
Now I have to go again, just to see the beginning of the play.
However, I redeemed myself by appearing so familiar with my surroundings in New York throughout the day that no fewer than four people separately stopped me to ask for directions. I answered all four correctly.
1. “Where’s the zoo?” – from just north of the zoo in Central Park.
2. “Where’s Broadway?” – standing in the middle of Times Square. Dude, even if you’re from West Nowhereville, Montana, it’s Times Square. You can find Broadway with a blindfold. You’re on it.
3. “Where’s the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?” – I should get major points for this one, even if I couldn’t name the exact subway line that stops there
4. “I know we’re at 42nd and Eighth, but where does the bus to the airport stop?” – again, I should get some huge points for pinpointing the exact part of the intersection where the bus stops. That’s not something you get off a map.
Now we just have to stop to reflect on how many things are wrong in the universe when I can pass for a New York City directions-giver. I think it’s the white cashmere scarf and the briefcase that really did the trick.
I went looking for American Airlines’ route map, and stumbled upon their list of “Featured Destinations.” Here’s the exhaustive list:
“One of these things is not like the other things; one of these things doesn’t belong.”
I just had to know what about Dallas makes it a featured destination. What does American Airlines have to say about it? There’s no such page!
That’s right. While Dallas is listed as a featured destination, there’s so shockingly little to say about it, they don’t even give it a blank page.
Budget rental cars come with key rings that can’t be opened – one solid ring with an identifying tag for the car, the fob that unlocks the doors, and a key.
Also on this keyring: a duplicate key.
Anybody else find this completely pointless?
The box of pie-sized Jell-O Chocolate Pudding we’ve got sitting here waiting to make the pie on Tuesday. In the corner it’s advertised: “A Good Source of Calcium (as Prepared)”
The parenthetical bit is really just a smaller typeface on the box.
As prepared? As in… with milk? Yep, a quick check of the nutrition facts panel confirms there’s absolutely no calcium in pudding. However, if you mix it with milk, you’ll get to have all the calcium that was already in the milk.
I’m doing Quality Assurance on the Summer Term 2008 course search application, and I swear to God there’s a course in the College of Arts and Sciences called “Learning to See.”
No more braille and special canes – just come here and take a four credit summer class!
Writes the Boston Globe, “Check out the merry participants in the Eighth Annual Santa Speedo Run for charity on Boylston Street.”
No, I don’t think I will.