Today I have a stress-induced migraine. Grrr...

I'm in the process of having a new kitchen put in. My old kitchen is ripped
out, so I have the cooking & cleaning facilities of the third world. The room
is bare-walled, bare-floored and I have a camp stove.

My new kitchen (units & other fittings) should have been delivered yesterday.
It wasn't. To cut a long story short, the company I bought the kitchen from (a
major retailer in the UK) does not answer the phone. After sitting on the phone
all day I eventually managed to find out the delivery had been put back to the
end of the month and indeed, another part said it had been cancelled...

So I got in the car & drove to the shop. Politely and firmly made my deep upset
and immense anger known. The guy at the shop was fine. He some digging and
found out the kitchen is at the delivery depot. So he would be chasing it. I
gave him a polite but firm ultimatum along the lines of "Friday at the latest,
I am a reasonable woman, but after Friday, I won't be. I am verging on being
menopausal, so I can blame my fluctuating hormones for any actions I may carry
out after that day" ;-)

This morning, Vernon had an appointment in the same place where the delivery
company is located, so he called in to find out *for sure* the kitchen was
still there. Indeed it is, but the company then informed Vernon that they
didn't know when they could deliver it as they are fully booked until the end
of the month and indeed, they had the kitchen loaded for delivery yesterday but
were told by the retailer the order had been cancelled, hence that was the
reason they didn't deliver. They then made Vernon pay £35 for a courier to
deliver it tomorrow.

Needless to say I went ballistic.

So I did a strong, but polite fax to the retailer, pointing out that its error
was costing unnecessary and unfair extra expense and additional stress and what
do they intend to do about it.

The retailer has called, apologised and paid the cost of the courier, but I am
totally stressed-out  and now have a raging migraine. Plus, I have the kitchen
ceiling to paint by tomorrow...

AAAGGGHHHH!!!

So I am going to take some pain-killers, have a nice cup of tea and de-stress
myself by cuddling a cat for an hour or so.

Cheers, helen s

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