This past week I ordered three hardcover George MacDonald books as a birthday gift for Eldest Grand, who turns 8 on Thursday. These are all illustrated used books in excellent condition, coming from three different booksellers through Amazon Marketplace; and as Eldest*Grand will be visiting from away on Friday and Saturday, I hoped to get them by then. One promised to have it to me on Wednesday, another promised by Friday, but the other only promised “by September 9th.” There was a place to leave a commnt for the seller, so I offered to pay more for shipping if they could expedite the order, and explained why I needed it. Here is the response I received!
"I sent the book out Monday morning using priority mail. You should hopefully receive it Wednesday. I see Amazon charged you for regular shipping. The cost difference was just about 3 dollars. If at some time you would like to donate a couple of dollars to your local library that would be wonderful. We will not try to collect the few dollars from you. I hope you and your granddaughter enjoy this book. It appeared to be a beautiful copy for its age. Patricia"
If you are ever hunting for a good used book, consider buying from Laramie Book Cellar! I will drop $3 in the donations box at the Library where I work, and would still be willing to pay more to Laramie Book Cellar, if I can figure out how.
Whenever I hear the F16s zooming fast and low over my house (rare), I can't help wondering, "Are we scrambling?!" They scrambled on 9/11/2001, and they go just about anywhere swiftly. I hope they were only practicing.
We live in a practice area here. There are rules though: *always* when they're too low, it's some hotshot kid getting his jollies. The mayor has the number of the officer in Newport News who takes the complaints, and files the damage reports; e.g., pileups at turkey houses, and hens won't lay for several days after a buzzing. . . . Hundreds of turkeys can die in the pileups. Horses, panicked, run into barbwire fences--one lady whose house was on a cliff over a river had all her riverside windows blown out.
I remember a story in the news years and years ago about an older gentleman in Germany who became fed up with the noise of US fighter jets zooming over his house to and from the nearby airbase. He had complained to no effect. Then he made a small catapult and made public his plan to use it to lob dumplings at the low-flying airplanes. There was a photo in the newspaper of the man and his catapult; it probably couldn't have lobbed a dumpling very far, but the publicity cured the problem.
It's still Howard.
ReplyDeleteThis past week I ordered three hardcover George MacDonald books as a birthday gift for Eldest Grand, who turns 8 on Thursday. These are all illustrated used books in excellent condition, coming from three different booksellers through Amazon Marketplace; and as Eldest*Grand will be visiting from away on Friday and Saturday, I hoped to get them by then. One promised to have it to me on Wednesday, another promised by Friday, but the other only promised “by September 9th.” There was a place to leave a commnt for the seller, so I offered to pay more for shipping if they could expedite the order, and explained why I needed it. Here is the response I received!
ReplyDelete"I sent the book out Monday morning using priority mail. You should hopefully receive it Wednesday. I see Amazon charged you for regular shipping. The cost difference was just about 3 dollars. If at some time you would like to donate a couple of dollars to your local library that would be wonderful. We will not try to collect the few dollars from you. I hope you and your granddaughter enjoy this book. It appeared to be a beautiful copy for its age. Patricia"
If you are ever hunting for a good used book, consider buying from Laramie Book Cellar! I will drop $3 in the donations box at the Library where I work, and would still be willing to pay more to Laramie Book Cellar, if I can figure out how.
This more than made my day!
Laramie Book Cellar. 310 S. 8th Street, Laramie, WY 82070
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--Alan
Whenever I hear the F16s zooming fast and low over my house (rare), I can't help wondering, "Are we scrambling?!" They scrambled on 9/11/2001, and they go just about anywhere swiftly. I hope they were only practicing.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a practice area here. There are rules though: *always* when they're too low, it's some hotshot kid getting his jollies. The mayor has the number of the officer in Newport News who takes the complaints, and files the damage reports; e.g., pileups at turkey houses, and hens won't lay for several days after a buzzing. . . . Hundreds of turkeys can die in the pileups. Horses, panicked, run into barbwire fences--one lady whose house was on a cliff over a river had all her riverside windows blown out.
DeleteOh, thankfully it wasn't *that* low. It was faster than usual and it's pretty rare that we even have a flyover anymore, so it got my attention.
DeleteI remember a story in the news years and years ago about an older gentleman in Germany who became fed up with the noise of US fighter jets zooming over his house to and from the nearby airbase. He had complained to no effect. Then he made a small catapult and made public his plan to use it to lob dumplings at the low-flying airplanes. There was a photo in the newspaper of the man and his catapult; it probably couldn't have lobbed a dumpling very far, but the publicity cured the problem.
Delete--Alan