25th August 2008
So, I had ordered a gas stove from future bazaar and it was supposed to be delivered at home. I had also ordered some pots and pans and they were being shipped separately. For some background, my truly semi-furnished apartment had come with an empty cylinder, no valid gas connection and a gas stove without the burners. For the last one month I have been strugling to get the gas cylinder filled since I don't have a valid connection. I therefore need to get it in black, which would cost about Rs. 650... which I am willing to pay... still it's taking like for ever... apparently none of the 12 watchmen in my apartment complex seem to have a clue about where the residents get their cylinders from!
I got a call in my office yesterday afternoon from a courier guy saying that he is at my apartment with the delivery from futurebazaar so I asked him to leave it with the reception. I also told the security that I will collect it at night from whoever is at the desk at the moment. At night when I went back and walked to the reception, there was a gas stove waiting for me, so I took it, then the watchman also gave me a pipe and a regulator with it... I wasn't expecting that a stove would include it but I thought it's good... I needed it anyways... and then I saw a gas cylinder lying there... it reminded me and I reminded the watchman that I need a cylinder to be filled as well. This is where it gets interesting... the watchman said... this cyliner is yours as well... I obviously was surprised and told him that I ordered just a stove, nothing more and he goes... "it's some scheme from HP" I don't remember the last time I was so pleasantly surprised but somehow I controlled my emotions and said, "I need to get it filled anyways"... and he said... It's already filled! I was like... this is not true... I paid Rs. 700... I can't get a stove, a pipe, a regulator and a filled cylinder... all this for 700 when the gas refill itself was just 650. The security personnel seemed convinced that it's possible... Now, I remember the last time I was so pleasantly surprised... it was about one minute ago... I thought ok... Chamatkar... great... God Tussi Great Ho types. I anyways deserved some good treatment after the bad experience with Future Bazaar (They had messed up my order previously and I had to write to the customer service and spend a few days getting things sorted out). So I came to my room with all the stuff, unpacked everything, set it up and for a moment felt like... have you seen the movie Dark Knight? the joker at one point says "I am like this dog chasing a car but if I ever caught one I won't know what to do with it". That's how I felt like after setting everything up. I lit up the lighter and after making sure that the gas works... happily went to bed.
I got up in the morning, looked at my kitchen and thought... nothing comes this easy in life. I kept feeling that something was wrong... anyways, I was leaving the apartment for a while and I met the watchman on the way. I told him that I am expecting another package today (the pots n pans, remember?) and he took out a packet and handed over to me and said it came for you yesterday! That was the pots and pans... one might have thought that the call I got from the courier guy was for these pots and pans but being the eternal optimist that I am, I thought may be I received two couriers yesterday, the stove as well as the pans. Then I went back to my room and went online... futurebazaar site... and checked my order status... it said, pots n pans delivered... gas stove - ON THE WAY!
28th August 2008
I had a very difficult time convincing myself to do the right thing and go tell the watchmen to find the person to whom all that stuff belonged. It's been 3 days since and the stuff is still with me... no one has claimed it yet and it hurts to just let it sit in the kitchen and not use it... but it will hurt even more to let it go... :-(
I even called a friend on the night I received the stuff and both of us convinced each other that it's a good marketing ploy by HP to provide such schemes and how it will give them an edge over Bharat Petroleum and how the advent of pipelines might have triggered such a move... you can tell that both of us are fresh MBAs.
But seriously, mera to ab chamatkaron par se vishwaas hi uth gaya hai.
So, I had ordered a gas stove from future bazaar and it was supposed to be delivered at home. I had also ordered some pots and pans and they were being shipped separately. For some background, my truly semi-furnished apartment had come with an empty cylinder, no valid gas connection and a gas stove without the burners. For the last one month I have been strugling to get the gas cylinder filled since I don't have a valid connection. I therefore need to get it in black, which would cost about Rs. 650... which I am willing to pay... still it's taking like for ever... apparently none of the 12 watchmen in my apartment complex seem to have a clue about where the residents get their cylinders from!
I got a call in my office yesterday afternoon from a courier guy saying that he is at my apartment with the delivery from futurebazaar so I asked him to leave it with the reception. I also told the security that I will collect it at night from whoever is at the desk at the moment. At night when I went back and walked to the reception, there was a gas stove waiting for me, so I took it, then the watchman also gave me a pipe and a regulator with it... I wasn't expecting that a stove would include it but I thought it's good... I needed it anyways... and then I saw a gas cylinder lying there... it reminded me and I reminded the watchman that I need a cylinder to be filled as well. This is where it gets interesting... the watchman said... this cyliner is yours as well... I obviously was surprised and told him that I ordered just a stove, nothing more and he goes... "it's some scheme from HP" I don't remember the last time I was so pleasantly surprised but somehow I controlled my emotions and said, "I need to get it filled anyways"... and he said... It's already filled! I was like... this is not true... I paid Rs. 700... I can't get a stove, a pipe, a regulator and a filled cylinder... all this for 700 when the gas refill itself was just 650. The security personnel seemed convinced that it's possible... Now, I remember the last time I was so pleasantly surprised... it was about one minute ago... I thought ok... Chamatkar... great... God Tussi Great Ho types. I anyways deserved some good treatment after the bad experience with Future Bazaar (They had messed up my order previously and I had to write to the customer service and spend a few days getting things sorted out). So I came to my room with all the stuff, unpacked everything, set it up and for a moment felt like... have you seen the movie Dark Knight? the joker at one point says "I am like this dog chasing a car but if I ever caught one I won't know what to do with it". That's how I felt like after setting everything up. I lit up the lighter and after making sure that the gas works... happily went to bed.
I got up in the morning, looked at my kitchen and thought... nothing comes this easy in life. I kept feeling that something was wrong... anyways, I was leaving the apartment for a while and I met the watchman on the way. I told him that I am expecting another package today (the pots n pans, remember?) and he took out a packet and handed over to me and said it came for you yesterday! That was the pots and pans... one might have thought that the call I got from the courier guy was for these pots and pans but being the eternal optimist that I am, I thought may be I received two couriers yesterday, the stove as well as the pans. Then I went back to my room and went online... futurebazaar site... and checked my order status... it said, pots n pans delivered... gas stove - ON THE WAY!
28th August 2008
I had a very difficult time convincing myself to do the right thing and go tell the watchmen to find the person to whom all that stuff belonged. It's been 3 days since and the stuff is still with me... no one has claimed it yet and it hurts to just let it sit in the kitchen and not use it... but it will hurt even more to let it go... :-(
I even called a friend on the night I received the stuff and both of us convinced each other that it's a good marketing ploy by HP to provide such schemes and how it will give them an edge over Bharat Petroleum and how the advent of pipelines might have triggered such a move... you can tell that both of us are fresh MBAs.
But seriously, mera to ab chamatkaron par se vishwaas hi uth gaya hai.
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5 comments:
aarree dont trust their IT system and status messages. It takes forever for them to update!!
the cylinder, regulator, stove, etc etc is all yours. woh ek kati patang hai... jisko mili...baas usiki!
finder's keepers type...ha ha ha
enjoy and make something fancy tonight!!!
-Samir
Thanks to your stories, I laughed so badly while reading your blogs. I feel that you should get rewarded for bringing laughter to other people :). I have never read such funny blogs before, very well written. (fairly, I believe that your writing skills are better than your photographing skills…..haha……:-D! )
mannnn...can't stop laughing after reading this :)
hey come on...go n use all that stuff...its all urs....atleast u can then stop using that microwave for anything and everything!
I would have used it had a guy not shown up a few days later to claim all the stuff :-(
For all those who are remotely interested in whether I get to have a good cup of tea in the morning... there is good news! I finally got a gas cylinder yesterday :-) Yipppeeeee!!!
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