It’s moving day. I was up at 5am for the 6.30am scheduled arrival of the truck. I only got about 4 hrs sleep last night but was organised and it should’ve only taken a couple of hours, so shouldn’t have been a drama.
At 7am…still no truck…so I phone the driver, no reply so I leave a message. At 7.15am he rings me back, proclaiming to not having any record or details of the booking….omg… stress!
I have texts from him, confirming the date and time, which I send him to clarify the booking. Turns out, he’s overlooked my booking and he can’t get here. Eek!
I really hate the thought of being needy but I gotta say…talk about feeling needy when I found myself without a truck to move! I totally felt all alone and I definitely wanted someone to come rescue me (being on a white horse optional). But after sitting on the stairs shedding a few tears, no knight in shining armour on a white horse, appeared, so I pulled my big girl panties on and I’ve decided to just roll with it & see where I end up.
While the original driver is trying to fix the mix up the best he can, it occurs to me that I co-created this drama, by not contacting him to confirm details yesterday. It’s not my mistake, no, but it was easily avoidable by one text/phone call to confirm, something that I would do routinely in my working life. Why didn’t I confirm with him the day before…? Because I have a belief, that checking details, will make me come across, to him, as a drama queen or high maintenance or needy…who’s in drama queen mode now…ummm….me! Lol. One phone call/text! That’s all it would’ve taken! OMG!
Deep breath…one thing at a time. I’m still going, no matter what.
(But going forward, I’m confirming the shit out of arrangements!)
Diane Walker Travels 
Di I am so sorry you’ve had these stuff-ups! You don’t need them at this stage. No excuse for the removal bloke, confirming will help you in future but you shouldn’t need to.
Don’t talk to me about mistakes in govt payrolls.
And thanks for letting me know about gvp because I hadn’t heard.
It really causes a nasty flutter in the stomach when these things happen one at a time but you seem to have been hit with a bucket load of them all at once! Hang in there, kid, you’ve got this.
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Thank you, Gail, for the encouragement. Bit of a trifector of events. New day tmrw tho.
Yes I hear it’s a first for GVP. This virus really has rattled people.
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