Outdoor Wednesday and The Worst Customer Service Award...

Happy Outdoor Wednesday!! For those who are working, you are half way through another week!



My H "whatever" Young clematis is blooming. I am new to growing clematis, and there are 1000's of varieties with wonderful names..that I can't remember. I put the little sticks next to them, but somehow many of them disappeared, so they will remain nameless...
When they bloom, I'll post a pic and you can tell me!



The Northern Lights azalea are starting to bloom, it is the only yellow one I have...






And the "you tell me" clematis are blooming on the arbor.....



I am sure next week I'll have more blooms to show, the iris are popping, and lilacs and rhodies too..
Please visit Susan at A Southern Daydreamer for more Outdoor Wednesday posts...

Speaking of outdoors, we have a 12x12 wood lattice gazebo we got at Sams Club several years ago. Even though we take the cover off during the winter..2 yrs is all they survive...
Which brings me to the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD...

In March, I contacted the company who makes the covers..Sams no longer sells the gazebo.
I was told they didn't have green, which is what I wanted, but they had natural...
send my check, they don't take credit cards...
So I think about it, but finally in April, send my check.

I don't hear anything, so I email them about my check...
They don't know anything about it..when did I send it??..
I tell them..
ask them to let me know if they get it..nothing..

The next week I get a phone call..
They are back ordered, they will mail it by the end of May...but no green..ok ..

Yesterday I email them, what date will it be shipped...
Email back ...what are you talking about?? Send your phone number..

So I send my phone number and tell them they must have it as they have called here...

Now the best..
tonight I get a phone call. Young woman says, they never called here..
I go through the whole thing and tell her the cover is supposed to be here by the end of May.
She tells me if I don't listen she will hang up.
Mind you I hadn't raised my voice, just explained the sequence of events! I couldn't believe it!

That it is a courtesy that they are selling the covers.
That everyone ( she says they have had 1000 calls) wants it right now and are being demanding..
I calmly say, I don't think ordering in April and expecting by the end of May is demanding...
OH NO!!! she yells, you will not get it till mid JUNE.
She tells me they are sending me GREEN...
"But you told me you had natural, and I said I would accept that so I wouldn't have to wait."
Now she tells me she doesn't have to sell it to me, they are just being kind to do so!!

So I have saved all my emails from her, and I send them to her, showing her what they did indeed tell me! Now she will probably be like the Soup Natzi in Seinfeld..
NO COVER FOR YOU!
So next time you buy something and plunk down your hard earned money..realize they are only selling it to you as a courtesy to be nice!!
The company ???located in Santa Ana, CA. PSI...they get the NO Customer Courtesy Award..

Dinner tonight..

Chicken Cordon Bleu, glazed carrots and baked potato..





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