Did I Move?? (standard:humor, 719 words)
Author: Subzero22	Added: May 10 2003	Views/Reads: 3310/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
This story is based on true events, Although I added a lot of things into it to make it more funny so a lot of it isn't true. You can also find this on my web site http://www.angelfire.com/nm/jokemaster

Did I Move?? 

Have you ever had a day like this? I ordered an airflight ticket over
the internet, and the travel agency I ordered it from charged my credit 
card for the ticket, booked my flight, and then sent me my air ticktets 
by FedEx. Knowing the tickets were coming, I used FedEx's internet 
tracking system to determine when the ticket would arrive at my home so 
I could be sure to be here to get it. I saw when the package containing 
the tickets left the New York shipping port, and as it travelled across 
the United States until it reached my home town. 

When the FedEx tracking system showed that the ticket was on a truck and
the ticket was enroute to be delivered, I anxiously awaited at my home 
for the ticket. I saw a FedEx truck pull up the street and was excited 
as I knew it had to be my ticket. I was dissappointed when the truck 
stopped at another home to drop off the ticket. So I waited some more. 
Finally, shortly before 5:00 pm when I knew the delivery trucks would 
no longer be out, I again checked the internet to find out where my 
package was. I couldn't understand why the ticket hadn't been delivered 
to my home since it had been placed on the delivery truck. When I 
tracked my package on FedEx's site to see where it was, to my shock I 
discovered that my ticket was being sent back to the travel agency 
where it had been purchased from. What???!!! I asked myself, and 
reading further I discovered that it said that the recipient no longer 
lived at the delivery address. I ran outside and checked my address, 
and sure enough, I still lived in my home. So immidiatetly I called 
FedEx. They said that if I went to their branch office in my home town, 
that I could pick up my ticket. By this point I was becomming 
frustrated and I made sure the man on the other end of the phone knew 
that I had NOT indeed moved. 

In a hurry to beat the closing time of 5:30, I rushed to the FedEx
office to get my ticket. I was amazed to finally make it in time, and I 
ran into the office to get my ticket. The office attendant searched for 
my package and finally found it. She said they would refund the 
delivery price since the ticket wasn't delivered properly. But she also 
said that the refund would have to go to the sender (namely the travel 
agency), since they were the ones who hired FedEx to send the package. 
I tried to explain to her that I was the one who had paid for delivery 
since the travel agency had simply charged my credit card to deliver 
the ticket to me. She explainded some more that that was policy, the 
refund had to go to the sender. Reluctantly, I finally agreed. When I 
got home I called the travel agency and explained the situation to 
them. They were very friendly and agreeable. They said they would 
refund the money they had charged my credit card to deliver the ticket. 
Finally I was satisfied. I had my ticket in hand and also knew the 
travel agency would credit my credit card for the delivery price I had 
been charged.......all was well. 

Or was it? A couple of days later I received a FedEx package in the
mail. This one was successfully delivered to my home address. I was 
surprised as I wasn't expecting anything in the mail. So I excitedly 
opened the package. I couldn't believe what was in it!!!! It was a 
refund for the delivery charges for the air ticket. How funny, I 
thought, that the travel agency would send the refund FedEx instead of 
simply crediting my credit card. Oh well, whatever. And I was fine, 
until a couple of days later..............when I received my credt card 
bill, and when I opened the bill my eyes grew big and I almost fell 
down to the floor. To my amazement I saw that the travel agency had 
charged me for the delivery of the refund check!!!!! And it was the 
same amount as the refund!!! 

I fired the travel agency...............................and FedEx! 


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