I had the opportunity to show my ultraintelligence this past week (actually the lack of it). And may I tell you, I felt so silly and possibly a little bit on the dumb side. So, here is the story behind the not so smart moment.
Jill and I purchased a vanity for the bathrooms up at the house in Copan. We bought them at Lowe’s. One was a 32” vanity for the main bathroom and the other was a large, 66” double sink vanity for the master bathroom. And, of course, neither were in stock so they had to be ordered and delivered.
No problem as the bathrooms were a few weeks from being ready for the vanities. Delivery was set up for the 17th of February. However, I forgot to tell them that they needed to deliver them up to the house in Copan. The Gore address is what was on the order form. Once I realized that little detail I went to the store to change it but couldn’t get it switched. (And this is not even the not so smart part.) Oh well, I will just put them on the trailer and take up to the house after they come in. And they did come in, early at that. The master vanity arrived on the 10th, a week early. And it only weighed 370 pounds.
Got the vanity loaded up in the back of truck Sunday afternoon. Strapped it in nice and tight. Then Monday morning I took off bright and early. I arrived in Copan with no problem. I got a couple of guys working outside on the barn I was having built to unload it.
Later when Jill arrived we opened the very large box and looked at the vanity to make sure it was the right one, all the pieces were there and we still liked it. And that is when I had a freakout moment.
Upon examination and removing the box (singular) inside I noticed that there was only one sink! Wait, this is a double sink vanity…this is not right. On both sides of the vanity there is a place where the box that holds the sink goes. But, there is just one box with a sink. “Well CRUD!” This stinks.
I call Lowe’s to see what I need to do. The Customer Service representative connects me with the Bathroom and Plumbing department. I find out the girls that sold the vanities was there today but helping another customer. I gave my phone number and description of what the situation was. “I will get her the message and she will call you right back,” was the response I got.
Not too optimistic of a return call, I go to work on something else. While waiting for the call, Jill looks at the set again to see if we could have missed the sink. I look again after finishing the task I was working on. We close up everything and head to town to talk with Lowe’s.
Once at Lowe’s we talk with the sales rep and her manager. A call was placed to the company that delivered the vanity. The only thing that could be done was a claim would be filed and investigated and sometime in the future a replacement sink would be shipped.
NO BUENO! I can’t wait that long. I will just go back to the house and load it up and return and repurchase the vanity. The Customer Service Manager said that would work. Bring it back and they would take care of it.
Problem is the thing weighs 300+ pounds.
Not sure how Jill and I will load it but I will figure it out.
We get to the house and assess the challenge of loading the huge vanity in the truck. I begin clearing a path to get it out of the bedroom to the truck when I notice very clearly written in big bold letters on the backside of the box containing the sink…two SINKS.
Yep. One box containing not one but two sinks, stacked inside each other (cardboard and bubble wrap between. It was at that moment I felt and inch high and like a total idiot.
Jill and I snickered a little. We were relieved all the pieces were there and we didn’t have to order a replacement. But I felt horrible as the sink was right there in front of me the whole time. Guess I need to make a call to Lowe’s.
I swallowed my pride and called Lowe’s and asked for the Customer Service person. I explained the situation to them and let me tell you they got a very hearty laugh out of all of this. They said it was no problem to them and they were glad all the pieces were there. They even apologized for any inconvenience.
This all reminded me of the necessity of paying attention to details. If I would have looked at the sink box closely and turned it around I would see clearly there were two sinks. But in my haste, I overlooked it and automatically jumped to the conclusion that I was short a sink.
We do this too many times with Scripture as well. We read it quickly, make our assumption and hastily jump to conclusions that are incorrect. We don’t look closely at the context, situation for the writing or purpose of it. Overlooking can cause us problems and/or embarrassment on so many levels.
My conclusion, PAY ATTENTION. Pay attention in all of life and especially Scripture.
2 Timothy 2:15 Bro. Tim
