Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense
Date	2018-11-25 14:17 +0100
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On 25/11/2018 05.59, micky wrote:
> A tale calculated to keep you in suspense
> 
>  Well not that much suspense, but I would appreciate comments.
> 
> Yesterday I got out of the hospital after 2 days (presumably I'm cured)
> and didn't want to cook.  Ordered a pizza to be delivered. 
> 
> It was 11:15PM and the parlor was open until 2AM. 
> 
> They said 30 to 45 minutes and after 15 minutes I went downstairs to
> wait in the kitchen, right next to the front hall.  After about 45
> minutes I called to tell them that Google shows my house about 2 blocks
> from where it really is. (but it's wrong** for almost every house on
> this 3-block street and they must have delivered to this street before
> and should know that.)
> 
> No answer, no answer twice more at 30 minute intervals. No pizza. 
> 
> At 2PM I ate what little food I had. 
> 
> I called today and he answered, same guy as yesterday, and he said the
> delivery man waited 30 minutes outside my house but I never answered the
> phone.   And that he himself called me 3 times. 
> 
> 
> I have had trouble getting my phone to ring in the past, the volume
> would mysteriously go down to zero, but yesterday I got a call around
> noon and it rang fine, and right after I called today, I called myself
> from the landline and it worked fine.
> 
> 
> I get 4 bars on my phone throughout the house. 
> 
> 
> 
> I asked him to deliver it again and he wanted to verify the last 4
> digits of the credit card and 20 minutes later it was there.  The
> delivery man said he wasn't the one from last night.   He didn't call
> from the car because it was daylight, but he knocked so lightly I barely
> heard it. 
> 
> So what happened.  Did my phone not work, or did he not deliver but used
> this as an excuse?
> 
> They've been in business for at least 10 years, they were prompt today,
> they didn't send a pie from last night but a fresh one. 
> 
> OTOH, how could my phone not work? 
> 
> 
> **The street is shaped like a square, and google seems to have started
> numbering at the SW corner and gone counterclockwise, when in fact the
> numbers start at the NW corner and go clockwise.   So 2 or 3 houses
> somewhere in the middle are probably correct.    Is it worth trying to
> write Google for them to correct this, or is it better this way so my
> enemies can't find me as quickly? 
> 

Next time hang a lantern on the steps and tell them :-)


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-24 23:59 -0500
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense Bob Henson <robert.h.henson@gmail.com> - 2018-11-25 09:36 +0000
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 15:30 -0500
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-25 14:17 +0100
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-11-25 14:18 +0000
      Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-25 11:03 -0500
      Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-25 14:59 -0500
        Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-25 20:43 +0000
          Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 19:37 -0500
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-11-25 16:11 +0000
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-25 17:56 +0000
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-25 11:33 -0700
      Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-25 11:17 -0800
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-11-25 20:17 +0000
      Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-25 14:41 -0800
        Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 20:37 -0500
          Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-27 05:25 +0000
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 20:33 -0500
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2018-11-25 20:11 -0800
    Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-11-26 11:55 +0000
      Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 20:08 -0500
        Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 20:14 -0500
        Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-27 05:38 +0000
  Re: A tale calculated to keep you in suspense Frank Markgraf <hauwech@nurfuerspam.de> - 2018-11-26 13:27 +0100
  Phone only rings some of the time? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-26 15:28 -0500
    Re: Phone only rings some of the time? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-27 00:18 +0100
      Re: Phone only rings some of the time? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-27 03:21 -0500
        Re: Phone only rings some of the time? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-27 16:52 +0000
          Re: Phone only rings some of the time? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-29 15:27 +0100
        Re: Phone only rings some of the time? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-27 14:38 -0500
          Re: Phone only rings some of the time? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-11-27 21:12 +0000
            Re: Phone only rings some of the time? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-28 09:49 -0500
              Re: Phone only rings some of the time? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2018-11-28 10:15 -0500
                Re: Phone only rings some of the time? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-28 10:52 -0500

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