Have you ever lost your mind for this many steps?

5 years ago

The front bedroom has been gutted, reframed and insulated (It was plaster on masonry and plasterboard over furring strips and masonry, minimal to no insulation).

This changed the shape of the one column-like thing in one corner (made it shallower). This is the inside shape of what is a recessed cove on the outside of the house. On the original drawings it was a quarter round on the inside of the house as well. So we decided to make it as intended.

It's framed, I found radius drywall pieces pre-formed and now all I need is the baseboard. My baseboard is site made and partly recessed so it looks very thin. (It's not thin because that would not stay flat and straight).

In the apartment, I had radius woodwork made to match the 1840 woodwork and so I went back to the original company. (I could use flexible PVC but that would be too easy).

So I emailed back and forth with them and made a template of the actual curve, measured drawings and sent it off.

But I sent the entire thing off to the company I use to make custom Corian pieces for me. Once I started working on the drawings and through the end when I took it to UPS and shipped it, going through the same thing with the address not showing up in UPS computers, and never realized this until the real fabricator called me and said the package had not been received and I had a notification that it had.

Different company, different state, different product.

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deegw

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

Sadly yes. Just recently.

I needed to purchase airline tickets. As I was searching for the best combo of flight and price, for some reason the site kept auto filling my dates and changing them.

I kept correcting the dates and finally found the best combo and tried to purchase. My preferred 7am return flight was gone, so I booked a later flight. Confirmed, picked seats, paid, confirmed the times and days again, looked at confirmation emails, blah, blah, blah.

They day of the flight my husband called and said "Do you know our flight arrives Friday at 2 and we leave 45 minutes later?".

What? I don't know what happened but there must of been one last auto fill that I didn't catch. I have no idea why I was even allowed to book such a combo.

Thankfully DH travels often and the airline rep was sympathetic so we were able to book a more reasonable return flight without too much financial hardship.

I will say I felt terrible about my stupid mistake.

Pal, did you figure out how to get your package to the right place?

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writersblock (9b/10a)
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Well, at least you didn't get it fabricated in Corian.

And d_gw, I did something similar with travel insurance. I was planning to be walking in France for almost two months, but the travel insurance defaulted back to two weeks and I didn't notice until I broke my foot and had to come home early. No coverage for the change in flights, extra days in Paris, etc.
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Well Corian millwork certainly opens a whole new world of ideas. They were actually willing to make it. I am doing all the millwork in conversion varnish in that room anyway so the cost might not be that much different and neither can easily be painted.

I am just surprised I followed so many steps in the wrong direction. I ve had the same issues with defaults on the computer and find Amazon so problematic with that that I often find it on Amazon and then go direct to the original vendor.
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Well Corian millwork certainly opens a whole new world of ideas. They were actually willing to make it.

lol

I'm aware of several similar situations in the past four years since we started building our new house (complicated by husband's cancer and surgery, his father's stroke and death, and then husband's heart attack and stents earlier this year) but I really do NOT want to know those mistakes I remain blissfully clueless about.
palimpsest
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I am actually thinking of getting the shelves for that walk in closet made out of Corian. It would be cheaper than having shelves done with conversion varnish or painted with oil based paint.
mtnrdredux_gw
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I lost my mind reading it all. : )
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Me too, Mtn.

I have made a similar mistake with a hotel reservation where today’s date became the default reservation date. And of course by the time I made the dang reservation, it was beyond the time I could cancel, but a phone call took care of the room charge when I explained. At the time I was an elite member of their hotel chain, so I guess that helped.

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