bastards! SOMEONE STOLE MY BRILLO PADS!!!

[samhexum]

SOMEONE STOLE MY BRILLO PADS!!!

On the night of 7/3 I placed a Walmart order for pickup that I will be getting tomorrow.  On the morning of 7/4 I got an email saying that my box of 10 great value Brillo pads hadn't been available for pick up but they could deliver it to me that day if I wanted or I could just have a refund. I figured, let them deliver, which they did that night. They left it by the mailboxes.

Since it cost a whopping $1.45 including taxes I felt in no need to rush downstairs and get it. I finally went down to get the mail today and guess what? That's $1.45 I'll never see again!

[samhexum]

Well, to be fair, they didn't know what was in the box .  I really hope they have a dishwasher and haven't used a Brillo pad in years. 

[BuffaloKyle]

I don't know where you live but since it was delivered on July 4th at night there might have been hooligans walking around that swiped the box.

[samhexum]

BUT... after just getting a text that my new shopping cart had arrived, I started to throw my clothes back on so I could go downstairs to get it when there was a knock at my door because the driver had brought it upstairs to me.

[samhexum]

6 minutes ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I don't know where you live but since it was delivered on July 4th at night there might have been hooligans walking around that swiped the box.

Apartment building... I let the superintendent know, I've asked him to be on the lookout for my missing property. I told him I'm devastated! I hope he gets my sarcasm.

[+ Just Chuck]

The fundamentals of criminal investigation are: motive, means, and opportunity.  
Top suspects are clean freaks, capable of lifting a package weighing 1/8th of a pound, and who happened to be in your vicinity during that timeframe.

[samhexum]

You know I just called Walmart and told them that my preset instructions for deliveries are that I'm disabled and it's hard for me to walk so please bring the package upstairs, and I mentioned that I said that to the delivery person over the intercom (although I don't know if she could hear me) And I also said that I couldn't get downstairs until the next morning (which ain't exactly the truth), and long story not short, my $1.45 refund is in the works.

[+ sync]

Stay on the case lest it gets "scrubbed."

[wsc]

2 hours ago, sync said:

Stay on the case lest it gets "scrubbed."

I'm sure the police haven't yet scratched the surface.

[Becket]

Come on guys. This is turning into a soap opera.

[+ SirBillybob]

Door delivery … always!

[+ SirBillybob]

The rest is up to your imagination … 

Edited July 9 by SirBillybob

[samhexum]

On 7/7/2026 at 7:11 PM, samhexum said:

BUT... after just getting a text that my new shopping cart had arrived, I started to throw my clothes back on so I could go downstairs to get it when there was a knock at my door because the driver had brought it upstairs to me.

I've always had multiple shopping carts-for shopping, laundry, garbage. As they have worn out, I've had to replace them. Last year, I ordered a large one and had it sent to my sister's house so my brother-in-law could put it together for me. It was too big and unwieldy and twice when I had it loaded up, it tipped over and I fell on top of it. A week after the second time that happened one of the wheels fell off, and I had to throw it away.

I ordered one and had it sent to my house months ago; it's useful, but too small. The last decent full size one I had died a few weeks ago so, like a modern day Goldilocks, I ordered another one from Walmart that would be neither too big nor too small. It arrived July 7, and I shocked myself by actually starting to put it together about 2AM, so less than six months after I actually got the thing (which is my usual normal).

Anyhoo... without further ado...  I was sitting on the floor starting to assemble things, and I thought I was missing a washer, but it turned out I was sitting on it. however, I only had one cotter pin, which hold the back wheels on, so you need two.

I called Walmart at close to 3 AM, got past the AI assistant, and spoke to the usual person with a very heavy Indian accent. I explained the situation and said I'm disabled and it's difficult for me to get around so I don't want to return it, but could they just send me the missing piece?

He put me on hold for about a minute while he looked into the matter then came back on the line and said I've initiated a full refund of $63.14 to you because the item was damaged with missing parts. You can just throw it away. 

I knew that I had some spare parts that came with the big one and the small one, but I thought I had used all of the cotter pins trying to repair the last full sized cart that I had a couple of times before it died.

You'll never guess what I found!  TWO cotter pins!

Anyhoo again... After all that (and not really having been in the mood to assemble the thing anyway) I put my free cart aside (meaning shoved it off to a different part of the floor) and will do it at some point over the (or some) weekend.

Then I got the email asking me to rate my call with the rep but never got the email saying we've initiated a refund so I called back at 4 AM and got another rep who checked and said that while the first rep thought he had initiated the refund he hadn't, but the second one did and I've gotten the email saying that the refund is in the works.

[samhexum]

On 7/17/2026 at 4:16 AM, samhexum said:

He put me on hold for about a minute while he looked into the matter then came back on the line and said I've initiated a full refund of $63.14 to you because the item was damaged with missing parts. You can just throw it away. 

I knew that I had some spare parts that came with the big one and the small one, but I thought I had used all of the cotter pins trying to repair the last full sized cart that I had a couple of times before it died.

You'll never guess what I found!  TWO cotter pins!

Remember the missing cotter pin... the piece of the shopping cart wheel assembly that caused me to call Walmart customer service to ask for a replacement part...  only to have the rep issue a full refund... before finding TWO of them among the extra parts that came with my other carts?

Well, guess what I found last night?

And, no, I still haven't finished putting it together.

Edited July 24 by samhexum
because you people deserve the best

[+ PhileasFogg]

On 7/7/2026 at 6:14 PM, samhexum said:

Apartment building... I let the superintendent know, I've asked him to be on the lookout for my missing property. I told him I'm devastated! I hope he gets my sarcasm.

Look for the formerly bald neighbor with unusually kinky blue tinted hair

[samhexum]

On 7/24/2026 at 4:19 AM, samhexum said:

Remember the missing cotter pin... the piece of the shopping cart wheel assembly that caused me to call Walmart customer service to ask for a replacement part...  only to have the rep issue a full refund... before finding TWO of them among the extra parts that came with my other carts? Well, guess what I found last night? And, no, I still haven't finished putting it together.

Is this not the most beautiful free shopping cart the world has ever seen?

[wsc]

5 hours ago, samhexum said:

Is this not the most beautiful free shopping cart the world has ever seen?

Yes! And I have that exact model from Walmart. Worked fine for shopping at a grocery store just about 1500 feet from home. However, although the trip home was fine (downhill), the trip uphill to the store, even with an empty cart, eventually became too much for me and I stopped using it.

BTW, I worked on the construction of several nuclear power plants in my career and putting this cart together was the hardest thing I ever assembled. Good luck! (And let me know if you need the lexicon of swear words I developed during that assembly.)

[samhexum]

3 minutes ago, wsc said:

Yes! And I have that exact model from Walmart. Worked fine for shopping at a grocery store just about 1500 feet from home. However, although the trip home was fine (downhill), the trip uphill to the store, even with an empty cart, eventually became too much for me and I stopped using it.

BTW, I worked on the construction of several nuclear power plants in my career and putting this cart together was the hardest thing I ever assembled. Good luck! (And let me know if you need the lexicon of swear words I developed during that assembly.)

It was actually quite easy.  Just drop a couple of washers on the front wheels and tighten a nut with an Allen wrench.  The back wheels only require two washers and a cotter pin.  

The only non-flat ground I'll ever use it on is the driveway of my building's garage after I get home from grocery shopping.

[+ sync]

On 7/27/2026 at 9:15 AM, wsc said:

Yes! And I have that exact model from Walmart. Worked fine for shopping at a grocery store just about 1500 feet from home. However, although the trip home was fine (downhill), the trip uphill to the store, even with an empty cart, eventually became too much for me and I stopped using it.

BTW, I worked on the construction of several nuclear power plants in my career and putting this cart together was the hardest thing I ever assembled. Good luck! (And let me know if you need the lexicon of swear words I developed during that assembly.)

Your experience assembling your shopping cart parallels my experience assembling my exercise bike.  To this day, the assembly of it is the most exhaustive workout I've experienced with the thing.