Our love goes to our UK friends John and Christine Emery who are having a rough time just now. We hope that life improves for you both from now on and that you can get back to some sort of normality very very soon, our thoughts are with you both and your families.
After the trials and trauma’s of yesterday we found that we were very hungry this morning. We had forgotten to eat, except for some cornflakes, yesterday. So we headed down to Albox and to Bar International for a FEB. We had just ordered the meal when the mobile jiggled in my pocket and a Spanish guy muttered something about delivering to Taberno. We were not expecting anything else until tomorrow, thus us being in Albox. I threw the phone at Ruby and asked her to have a word to the caller. My instruction for all deliveries is as soon as the driver leaves the motorway, give me a ring and by the time they have made it to Taberno, I can drive from the house or even Albox and meet them to guide them up to site. These guys phoned from the car park at Lentisco’s in Taberno. We asked Ruby to explain that we would be about an hour and that they should go and have a coffee or something stronger and we would hot foot it back to meet them. So we gulped down our long awaited breakfast and sped back to Taberno toot sweet.
Unlike the bad delivery yesterday, this delivery was perfect and the two young men took great care to assemble the dining room table and the downstairs patio set and then cleaned up after themselves.
Whilst we were having breakfast the phone went for a second time and the manageress of the crappy furniture store rang, expressing her shock/horror at what had happened yesterday. She couldn’t believe that the furniture could be so bad (she hadn’t even bothered to see the stuff before she rang). I told her that we were very disappointed with them and that we would be in to see them on Monday for our deposit back. If they decide to be reluctant to fork out our deposit I will use the immortal words that over here really do have meaning, ‘I would like to make an entry in your complaints book please’. If I do this, and I make a complaint, I get a copy of the complaint and an official copy goes off to the central Almerian Government for serious investigation. Normally firms here wake up big time and will do almost anything to avoid this final sanction because it is taken so seriously, records are kept for future use and transgressors are even shut down if they get too many complaints against them. Consumer protection, backed up by government, now that seems a good idea.
BTW This is the 300th posting.