SHOPPING ONLINE-The Box’Treasure Hunt’Shipment’

I got this parcel delivered to me after having had shopped online, & without checking the whole package out, I handed over the cash to the delivery guy (that's what we generally do). After unwrapping the packet, I realized that I was charged unreasonably for the four out of one products that I had ordered & received & there was nothing at all beside this one.Yet trying to figure out the whole issue, I mailed to the xyz.com & I got several calls pertaining to the same, trying to figure out about the whereabouts of the other items-undelivered.

After two days. something terrifically Insane happened, which was, that this cardboard box which had the item packed actually had the items, in it, but to my surprise the cardboard was clubbed with another cardboard, inside (double packed),with three layers of xyz.com ‘branded’ plastic packing over it, and tapes everywhere.

I wonder, I would have immediately thrown away the box, but since I generally keep such user-friendly boxes in an attempt to use it somehow or the other, it would have been difficult never founding my rest of the delivered items.

These guys should be specific about, how the parcel was packed, So that the customer can really do a thorough search or for that matter not be surprised if things like this happened.The box was emptied, after this one product was found inside(a), and the other (b,c,d), were there down at the bottom of the parcel.

How insane it was to actually have thought, that something like this could even happen, I mean who would pack two boxes together, making it look like one box & then gluing & taping it more to top it all , like it was one box. Had I not removed the tape, I would not have even got a hint that this had happened.

I wish I could have clicked a picture of the same, and posted. Anyways! I guess "all's well that ends well" I had done a commendable job of unwrapping & finding the invisible box.

It was like one of those "Treasure-Hidden" Games, where participants would go finding the hidden treasure & once found, would win.

I was cursing the the packaging department. They should mention in the fully specified details in such cases, as to where the parcel could be stuck and glued inside a parcel along with a thermacol padding. I would have taken it as an extra padded packaging part if not had taken out every inch of the card-board box, tearing down the thermacol & the plastic-bubble  wrapping bits.

Recalling it as - Dabbey main Dabba "Box in a Box, thanking my enlightened brilliance for giving me courage ,patience & intellect of have finally founding the lost. (It's like' you get something from nowhere, and you tend to get excited about it "like - giving a child three chocolates, when he/she is expecting one or/none. The excitement & happiness of finding out something that was lost/out of sight, which you had not even in your wildest dreams anticipated to be there.

I happened to have shared this incidence over the blog on the Internet as well. I do appreciate the cooperation of xyz.com customer care & wanted to bring to there notice about this, so they did not panic any further trying to figure about the whereabouts of the product-delivery & charges of the "lost & found." I've learned my lesson now, next time, I would make a recording of the box opened right in front of the delivery person and checked before I made payments & confirmed that 'everything was fine". Looking forward to shop more at xyz.com, & hopefully no more tearing down packaging in attempts to hunt down for any 'hidden-treasures within whatsoever to my surprise'. - Anonymous, 28, Delhi, India

CHATTING OVER-Un'Social Networking

I share in few conversational chats that I had over this social networking portal.

Chatter<.1.> After my hi, to this very person, a reply came hello, & so the communication started. There had been no communication previous ever with this person. So it was obvious that I was going to be inquired much more, with questions like, who are you and what you do. Then I was asked for my picture, I said they were in ma albums on my profile. I was told that baby please update your display picture. I replied ok sweetheart, I will do that darling, despite knowing that I wont, Since I was a little insecure, with reference to few problems I had been facing, So did not wanted to publicize myself on my display picture. Rather I had have whole lot pictures in my album, shared with all of my friends on my list. To my question asked from the other side, wassup?, Nothing much was the reply, to which I replied saying, Why nothing, There should certainly be something. Hmmmmm was the reply again. Later with a series of hmmmm's and smiley's, a message popped up, oh you are male, I thought you were a female,& I am sorry for talking to you like this, mistook you for a female.

I wondered, what if I was a female, at least a conversation would have reached to some greater heights & you never know if it could actually grow real .Thankfully, the other side was enlightened now & the conversation seemed to have ended just like that forever.

Irrespective of just a virtual id, it just might be of a stranger - an add on to your list of friend list , how reasonable it would be to actually term them as friends?.

Chatter<.2.> This one was a straight yet intriguingly fake & idiotic. The person on the other person was online, and with a couple of his and hello's and the questions being bombarded, like who you are what you do and where is your picture. (I am amazed on the idiocy of social networking users, where they cant even have a look at the whole profile before going into a friend list and accepting the requests, and would never communicate, until you start poking, or take in an effort to communicate yourself. the next question I was asked, what do you like? my answer was everything(not exactly knowing what was I being asked in particular pertaining to what?,without any specifications) After all a stranger asking you this thing for the first time, is little out of the box. I guess I had assumed what it meant, though I took it in a easy way, & replied everything. Then I was asked to be specific, in detail about my likes. I asked the same question to the person on the other side, to know what was it exactly, that was being inquired about. Reply form the other side came, first you tell me. I again said, everything, to which I was asked so what's your size? Holy Shit,(intuitively though, but not that straight forward was I expecting I would have been barely asked such thing in few minutes of a first time chat. I kind of cleared in the specification of the thing I was being asked about, & message came with the other person's specified measurements. (I got you) was in my mind. As if I knew what and who of the whole personality on the other side with interests and looking for criteria(clear and loud), Then I was asked if I knew the other two mutual friends of our's who were in the friend list of both, & whether they do are of the same interest, & what did you had such chat's with them too?. My answer was no, not such talks with them, they are just friends, who are in my list, with no particular agenda form my side as of now(so it was just a general hi-hello, series of pokes, and a picture & status like-communication until now), i& i was not aware of there sexual orientation( & never had actually wanted/initiated to inquire, or was curious about-never had added them on that particular agenda on mind! After that in sometime noticed. I was befriended from the other side, and that was the next thing that was already on my mind. (Surprisingly though, I was irritating, and useless at the same time, to have had such people in the list, who actually were not clear about what they were looking for and who they knew, and how they want to communicate, (I mean why was I being added or my friend request being accepted in the first place, without basic intro and interest, orientation & sex derailing (specification despite being mentioned on the profile info(over this social networking site). For sure my pic’s were liked, that came as a sigh! to me knowing it. now I know I am not that bad looking. LOL

Chatter<.3.> A decent looking person on the side accepted my friend request, that I had send across, & with no questions I was asked, I guess it was much clear on the other side what my sex was, and where my picture was. With couple of likes that I hit on the person's pictures. I kind of took the person to be cute and simpler a teenager, who seem keen to be friends, and increase there list of friends. Well after the little 3 minute conversation, that we had, I was asked, Which Mobile Service you use? my reply was XYZ. & to my surprise I message came, Can you please transfer Rs. 500 to my Cell, as a recharge. I never replied back. I guess I was in a stake of shock*in a funnier surprisingly sort of way). yes I later saw this person online after long, and we communicated, hi, wassup, smiley's & that's it. Good Lord, I was not asked for a re-charge to be done. I mean I need to be friends wit a person first or relatively known a person, to have actually do the needful, how can I do it for a complete stranger?

- Anonymous, Male, 34 Delhi, India