so my bag arrived somewhere around 3am last night. i heard the guy walk up on the porch and drop it off, though by that point i couldnt bring myself to get out of bed. it was in the hall when i got up this morning. 1 problem solved.

the previous 2 are like this:

(the left present) i bought my father a kickass gift. i carried it from kyoto to tokyo. i carried it around tokyo. i brought it back on the plane. and then, on the flight from sfo to lax, i left it beside the seat.

i realized in the car and called united. turns out i could have gone back and filed a report in the airport, which im sure would have upped my odds of getting the gift back. as is, i had to leave a message when i called. their intro said it could take up to 10 days to find out — its day 3 right now and no call back. so im frustrated and annoyed. it was expensive and the work involved in replacing it will not be minor. the biggest annoyance is that i had it until the last minute, when jetlag and the older woman next to me distracted me just enough that i forgot it. i even checked the seat pocket on my way out, feeling like i had left something. it ruined my mood for several days…

(the atm card) this is a continuation of the story i posted right before i left. the card was set to be delivered by 8am the morning i left for singapore. kurt was driving me to the airport, so we were hanging out until the card arrived. the night before, i hung a sign on the door saying i was home and to buzz up. then the waiting game started. i was up by 6…by 7.45 no call had come and i went downstairs. no sign on the door saying fed ex had arrived and my sign was still hanging. i called my father, who had all the tracking info and he saw on the fed ex website that the package was being reported as ‘attempted delivery’. he called fed ex.

turns out that the drivers dont carry cellphones (what?). when this driver checked back in he said ‘the name wasnt on the mailbox’ so he didnt deliver. he was lying — not only is my name on the box, my name was on the note i hung. when pressed on it further, the driver said that ‘it was a sketchy neighborhood and someone was watching, so he didnt feel comfortable delivering the package’. again, total bs. my neighborhood is of various ethnicies but it isnt dangerous in the slightest.

so the card didnt leave with me. the backup plan was to have rachael order the card so it would be waiting for me in tokyo when i got there. well, that didnt work because of timezones and holidays. so i called when i got to tokyo. turns out they cant actually overnight the card to me like they promised. what they can do is send it ‘overnight’ which takes 2 days and it is a temporary visa card, not my permanent atm card. the problem is that 2 days isnt good enough, as we are leaving for kyoto in one. so finally we decide to order the card to kyoto, where it does, in fact, end up meeting us. the funniest part was that the card was shipped from singapore. small world.

so those were the frustrations. the rest of my stories are much better. i promise.

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