It amazes me that anything gets done in this country with everything so damned unorganized.  I had to pick up a package today from a shipping company similar to UPS.  (I'm being generous by saying similar.)  The company is basically a warehouse with a desk and an office of sorts.  There were three clerks in the place milling about with little sense of purpose.  One guy took my info and wrote it on a scrap of paper he found under the counter, then wandered off.  Another guy came over a few minutes later and asked me what I wanted and I told him I'd already been helped so he shrugged and wandered off too.  About 10 minutes later the third guy came over to tell another customer that his package hadn't arrived and then asked me what I was waiting for.  In the meantime, the first two guys had gone into a little glassed-in office and were pounding away at computers, so he went to join them.  After 10 more minutes guy number 1 came out and got on a mini forklift and started driving up and down the aisles of the storage area.  I use the word "aisle" very loosely as most boxes and packages weren't actually stacked on shelves but just sitting around in giant piles on the floor.  The building isn't any bigger than a basketball court and the package was a cell phone so he didn't need to be driving and he sure didn't need a forklift.  But he zoomed around, back and forth while guy number 2 yelled instructions like, "It's probably just a large envelope!", and "Try the pile that came in last Tuesday!".  Finally after half an hour I got my new phone but only after the clerk had taken down some numbers from the package on yet another scrap of paper pulled from under the counter...... 

Tomorrow annual visit to the Apple Festival in Cavour.  xxoo me