Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Whats Fun About being a Foreigner

Long story short.

I just got back from the beach. Its beautiful outside. I was happy.

The phone rang only moments after I stepped back inside.

The phone call went like this:

Me: Hello.

Annoying Telemarketer: Hi. I'm (at this stage it all sounds the same to me)...I'm blah, blah, blah, selling, blah, blah, blah...

Me: No. Your calling California.

Annoying Telemarketer: Oh! Your kidding!???

Me: No. This is California.

Annoying Telemarketer: OH! I didn't dial international...

Me: Maybe your phone has a tweak in it.

Annoying Telemarketer: Oh dear. I'm so sorry. Goodbye.

Me: I'm laughing my ass off.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Enevelope is Too Small; I Refuse to Buy a Bigger One

It all started when I bought a couple of Australia Post Envelopes to ship a couple DVDs that I sold on eBay. They were the perfect size for the DVDS...until I got home. The sneaky Australian Post swindlers make the envelopes just big enough to make it look like a DVD will fit into them, but they won't. So, naturally, you have to upgrade to the bigger envelope (and accept the loss). Whatever. I was on a mission.



Yep. That's the culprit.

Anyway, how to turn a negative into a positive, fun, and enjoyable experience.



I needed something like bubble wrap to help protect the DVD while it is being shipped. Hmmm...I have some extra plastic bags laying around! How ghetto is that? This is where it started to get fun. Time for the creative process to kick in.

I'm looking back at this, and laughing pretty hard at this point. Could you imagine getting something in the mail from an eBay seller that looked like this? I have bought quite a few things online from eBay, and other places, and never got anything like this!

Like it was a bag that eBay provided; it said "Thank you for shopping @ eBay". With the mandatory smiley face; of course.

I have tons of stuff shipped to me, so I knew I had something to mail this stuff in. Aha! There it is. I found it. My mail-delivery saviour. An old crumbled up piece of brown shipping paper. Perfect!

Next, I gotta wrap this baby up like it was Christmas time.



There aren't any drugs in there...I swear!

Looks good hunh? Don't worry, it gets better.

A couple more rolls, a fold here, a fold there, some good ole scotch tape.



Almost there...



Yeah. There it is. Perfect! Take that eBay power sellers! My packaging has character.




"Aaaaaa!!!"



One Down. One to Go.




Shhh...Don't tell anybody...its a Secret! By the way, have you seen this movie/documentary/infomercial? Its not that bad. It really works! Seriously.





Do you love the Fred Meyer bag? Whats funny about it is they don't even have Fred Meyer in Australia! Could you imagine what the person must be thinking when they see this?

I was out of all white, blank bags. Oh well. Its novelty. It has my eBay name on there. Thanks from eBay & kc_cal. If you look closely there is a top secret URL on there too!



Back to wrapping...



...and more wrapping......



What? Did you forget already? SHHH!!! Its a SECRET!



And. VOILA! All Done. These packaged are now all ready to be shipped via the great men and woman that run the Australian Post.

And thanks for making those desceptive envelopes a hair too small! If they were the proper size, I wouldn't of had such a good time, and would have missed out on some laughs!

Cheers!

and

Thanks!

See you on eBay.