It Could Be Tomorrow (Day 3487 - 6/12/19)

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Mallory called Ikea at 9:00 AM since they were instructed to do so yesterday to check if their furniture would be arriving today. They were told that the furniture will not be arriving today, and may or may not arrive tomorrow or the day after that. Mal was told that they don't make promises on delivery days. However, they made promises about the delivery date multiple times.

Stephen says that they ordered the furniture on May 20th and the original delivery date was supposed to be June 7th. Mal asked the Ikea customer support for the delivery company's contact number and found out that they did send a truck out for delivery, but it broke down after 45 minutes of driving. The delivery company is based in Atlanta which is 6 hours away, so they don't send trucks often to South Carolina. Therefore, their furniture won't arrive until next Monday or Tuesday. Stephen also found out that the person who told him that the furniture would be arriving last Tuesday was actually someone from the delivery company and not Ikea.

Mal says that she is not mad at the delivery company since they were the only ones that gave them real answers. However, there were 2 Ikea customer service representatives that she received awful service from. One of the guys told her to relax and it might lead to her receiving the delivery today. He also asked Mal if it was her husband's order even though the order is under her name.

Stephen talks about how this situation would've been bad for someone who has to take days off work to receive the delivery. They both work at home, so it wasn't an issue for them. Mal said that Ikea would refund half of the delivery fee for the all the trouble. Stephen says that if he would've known this would happen, he would've rented a box truck and drove up to Ikea in Charlotte to pick up the furniture which costs the same as the delivery fee. The delivery company said they would call them on Friday to schedule a delivery time, but Stephen is skeptical since they didn't call last time. Stephen then says that Paul is arriving on Friday and leaving on Sunday. They only have a chaise and an ottoman, so there will be no couch for Paul to sit on.

They got to Lunch Bunch with Roland, Austin, and Dan at Five Guys where they vent about their furniture woes.

Back at home, they have bacon-wrapped chicken for dinner. They ordered some items from Amazon, like a new curtain for the back door, which arrived today. Stephen finished editing the first pass of the April 9th Japan vlog. They changed the light bulbs since the lights were really dim. Mal installed some toilet paper holders which the house didn't have for some reason despite their being 2 sets of previous tenants. Stephen assumes that the previous tenants used a standing toilet paper holder. Mal framed some prints she got and Japan and a picture she took of a bunch of lucky cats statues.