Everyone loves a good yarn (my favorite is Louisa Harding’s wool and alpaca yarn in Thistle) so here’s a tale about last week’s delivery of our ocean freight shipment.

Not only did our 2 pallets of 56 crates arrive unannounced and unscheduled, we had two shady truck drivers that did not appear to know what they were doing.

I don’t care what planet you’re from — unloading pallets off a lift gate like this is WHOLLY dangerous and life-threatening. There was a second when the lift-gate dropped…and my heart dropped as well, as my mind squirreled *$%@^#~+) “THAT IS 4,000 lbs of PRECIOUS STEEL!!! MY PRECIOUS!!!

Plain and simple…it took 2 hours for these 2 geniuses to unload our freight. It also took my grey dolly, my red hydraulic dolly, myself and 5 friends to PUSH the pallets from the front to the back of the truck.

Remind me why I pay exorbitant freight fees, when my friends and I are the ones doing the pushing and sweating, and trying not to get hit by falling steel.

End rant! I am off for a massage as soon as my last biggie, a Strong SC-16 16” 3-jaw manual scroll chuck ships to Canada.