Oh Dangleberrys!

on Dec 13 in General by

I’ve got news about my parcel. Unfortunately it’s bad news. Yesterday Greg (who is the chap that is very kindly sending me this gift) got an email from the online store he bought it from.

Parts of the following message have been censored in concordance with the official secrets act.

—–Original Message—–
From mark@[censored].co.uk>
To: [censored]
Sent: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 4:39 am
Subject: Problem with your [censored] Order

Hi

Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologise, as we have an issue with your order.

Due to a hefty malfunction in our back office system (during the Xmas rush – that’s timing for you, eh!?) our listing software pumped a lot of products online which were not available for us to ship. Unfortunately [censored] were one of the products affected.

The only [censored] we have available to ship are Pink, but your order was for (or contained) another choice of colour than pink. Obviously, we don’t expect you to just accept a pink [censored], so a full refund is on offer with no quibbles. However if you wish for us to send a pink [censored], then that’s also not a problem. Please let us know your preference as soon as humanly possible so we can sort out this colossal mess ASAP. As many of these are undoubtedly Xmas gifts, we obviously would like you to have the opportunity to find another within the next week or so.

Again, I apologise for this situation. I’m truly sorry that we’ve let you down with your order.

Kind Regards
Mark

While it’s tempting to accept a pink one, I worry that it will emasculate me in many people’s eyes. What do you think I should do? Hold out for the green one like originally promised or sacrifice my masculinity and get a pink one?

Why is life so hard?

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