So we finally decided to buy an Air Fryer. Electricity is expensive and we are cheap. Plus why buy a sensible, traditional appliance, when you can have a gadget?
But how did this relate to me cycling 14 miles in the bitter cold?
After months of deliberations with Mrs Rad, we decided to place an order for an Air Fryer on Black Friday, to take advantage of the reduced price, which is probably the same as it was a week ago, but we didn’t check that.
The order went in yesterday, you can expect that as usual Amazon would deliver it today. Sure enough at about 10am, they said they’d deliver it between 10 and 12. They even sent me a handy little map showing where ‘my amazon driver’ was at the moment and how many deliveries were in from of me. And he got closer and closer and closer.But then, he started getting further and further away? No longer did the message say ‘your the next customer’, but that he still had a few more packages to deliver before me.
Then the delivery time changed – to between 2 and 5. And we were supposed to be going out with the kids to a christmas market and to see the christmas tree lights switched on, but we also had to stay in to collect the package.
Well we were desperate for our long awaited air fryer. So we hatched a plan where Mrs Rad would go to the christmas lights with the Radlings on the train and I would wait until the last minute for the air fryer, and then rush down to Bournville on the bike and meet them.
And of course the package didn’t come. And of course it was absolutely freezing outside and dark, and I had to pedal super fast to get there. And although it was fun to watch the lights get switched on, it was just a single tree, so took about 5 minutes and we had to come almost immediately back. Another 7 miles of bike riding in the bitter cold.
But we were in luck, we got back and it still hadn’t been delivered, so there was just a chance. Except as I walked in the door, a text message arrived ‘there was a problem with your delivery, we’ll try again tomorrow.
And now we get to wait in all day tomorrow instead.