Corporate dickery

I bought seasons 2-5 of The Sopranos from bestbuy.com over break and apparently managed to send them to the wrong address (Massachusetts, not Virginia). Sigh. Well damn. DVDs will be sitting outside my apartment for a long time just begging to be stolen. But wait! Ryan says he'll pick them up for me! Having friends rules!

But wait (again). UPS won't just leave the fucking package (sorry for the tone, UPS... I know you were just looking out for me and trying to prevent said theft, but I am in a rage), they keep putting up those failure to deliver notices. OK, no big deal, they've done that before, it just means a trip to Springfield (blah, but worth it for organized crime) to pick it up where it's being held at the UPS center.

OH WAIT. "Fuck you," said UPS. "Me?" I said incredulously. "Yes, you," they replied. This in the form of an email from Best Buy saying my product return had been successfully received.

WHAT?!?! No no no no no no no! Surely Best Buy will allow me to reverse this tragic mistake! Surely they won't deprive me of the best organized crime television there is! Call customer support, listen to groovy music. Groovy and repetitive music. OK now mostly repetitive. Yay, a person! Dear person, please say I can reverse this. Oh, I can re-buy the items at full price, even though they were on sale when I originally bought them and they were returned as a mistake? Thanks, kind representative, I never would have thought to USE THE WEBSITE TO PLACE MY ORDER A SECOND TIME if that were what I wanted to do. But, having been on the receiving end of many an angry caller during my days at ITC, I thanked her and kept my tone pleasant.

No Sopranos for me. Goodbye wonderful savings. Goodbye wonderful television show.

But on the bright side, I was jonesing for some Phil Collins last night and I didn't own any, so I bought some and it rules. Phil, what a marvelous crafter of songs you are. Plus I got a postcard from Leighton in Ireland (come back Leighton, I miss you and I won't be in Virginia much longer)! So take that Best Buy, my day carries on unruined.

Song of the day is "Can't Stop Loving You" by Phil Collins. Awwww.