My Ebay Fiasco

It all started when I couldn't find clover seed at my corner hardware store.  They'd had it in bulk last year but not anymore.  So I do the sensible thing. Having had a few successful transactions on Ebay, both buying and selling, I put "clover seed" in their search engine and ended up making a purchase from somewhere in Canada.  That was my first mistake, not realizing how long it takes to get a tiny package from there to here.  Three weeks later the truly tiny thing arrived with this written on the outside:  "Glass Beads."  What the hell?  Tearing open the package, I find indeed a couple of hundred glass beads.  Next stop, the Ebay sales information, carefully filed away with my saved email messages.  Of course I'm thinking this seller has screwed up and this wrong will be righted. 

The denouement to this tale of frustration is that I found the following description of what I'd bought:  "GREEN CLOVER bunch-of-letters-and-numbers glass beads."  Man, I hate it when it turns out I'm the one who screwd up, although in this case can you blame me?  And remember I wanted to plant the damn stuff a month ago. 

Okay, the beads arrived on Monday and I've calmed down by now.  I made constructive plans to check out another hardware when I'm out driving around today, but there isn't one handy.  Now I'm really proud of the next bit.  I went right back to Ebay and ordered the presumably right thing this time, and for much less ($3 including shipping versus the original $11).  And it's from the faster side of the U.S.-Canada border - I'm hoping - in good old Maine.  Wish me luck.

Comments

[Pam]

So, what are you going to do with all those green glass beads? Garden art?

[Takoma Gardener]

Well, I was going to try to be creative with them but now (sigh) I can't even find them. Bad karma all around, I say.

[Alice]

Are you going to re-sow your lawn with the clover (the proper stuff)? A lot of gardeners don't like it as a lawn grass because of the bees, but that shouldn't be a problem if mown regularly. Clover in the garden beds is another matter, though. Good luck with your planting.

[PamJ.]

I have 3 reasons for replying to your post: I need to establish a unique "Pam" identity to distinguish myself from the other Pam---so from now on I'll be PamJ. Why don't you take your beads, when you find them, to that local TP bead store and see if you can barter for something you might use---that store is full of fun stuff. And third: I think the entire story is actually quite funny.

[Pam]

Sorry to take your name, PamJ. That is also my middle initial,J, short for Jean and I am still called PJ by my Dad, but I promise not to confuse the issue here by using it. It is a funny story and one I can see happening to me. There will times I look at something on the shelf at the store even and somehow come home with the tiem to the left of it for some reason.

[PamJ]

"I look at something on the shelf at the store ..and somehow come home with the item to the left of it" I wonder if this is a Pam thing? I do it all the time.

I'm amazed at the no. of Pams who have popped up in my world just in the last 10 yrs or so. Curious, b/c I was always the only Pam in my schools or jobs or camps---way back in the 50s/60s/70s.