This week we took delivery of our purchases from the week before. We had shopping sprees at IKEA, Macy’s, Bed Bath And Beyond, and a few things from Best Buy. All this had to funneled through the service elevator at our apartment which had been readied with padding for the day’s events, along with a $1,000 damage deposit.
Monday morning Toni was at the apartment waiting for the deliveries to begin while I worked still at the hotel. The hourly updates were fine at first. Best Buy and Macy’s were straightforward drop offs. IKEA was more complex as the items were large and required assembly. As the debris started to clear and the items took shape Toni came to realize there was no mattress. It turned out that the one we picked out did not get ordered. Panic. She called me to see about getting one delivered the next day. This call came at 3:00 PM. A quick search turned up a half dozen places offering exactly that service. Unbelievable. In about an hour I had lined up just the mattress we wanted at a good price with free overnight delivery.
On Tuesday we were both at the apartment to get ready for the cable installer, TV, phone, and internet. I quickly unpacked and assembled the TV while Toni got the phone plugged in to start charging. Meanwhile the mattress arrived and was put in place as promised. The cable guy was busy spreading his spaghetti of wires around. The TV was on but without sound, he got the phone up and finally the internet. He then told us the TV was bad and seeing our disbelief gave us a quick demonstration. Great. So Toni scrambled around to find the receipt and got Best Buy on the phone. She got off the phone and told me to box it back up. They came over in an hour to pick it up and another hour later they were back with a new one.
So now that we had the necessities it was decided we were not going to go back to the hotel tonight. Bed, TV, internet, but no food. I had found a great site that gives you all kinds of search options for Manhattan restaurants. So I find 500 in our neighborhood, 200 with free delivery, 13 with Mexican. We picked one based on four stars and one dollar sign, scoped the menu quickly and made the call. Less than 15 minutes later we were eating.
We still needed food for the morning. Again we are on the phone with a grocery store at 8:00 PM. Toni only ordered a few things and asked if there was a minimum order for delivery and the guy said they will do a six pack of Coke if that is all we want. A half hour later a kid is at our door with four bags in hand, Toni signed the ticket and we are good.
It is almost as if you can wish for anything you want and it will magically appear.
Just too much fun!
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