Excitement And Let Down

[tbaghdadi]

My kid brought in the mail today. He did not tell me about the three packages that came. I saw them on my way out to walk the dogs. I got excited because I was waiting on Model T stuff I ordered. Upon closer inspection the packages were addressed to my wife. Oh the pain is unbearable waiting for T stuff to arrive.

[Burger in Spokane]

I had a friend (now passed) that would spend thousands on catalogue
/internet auction items. A box would arrive, and he might take a week
to get around to opening it ! If there were multiple items in it, he might
take two or three weeks to take the items from the box, saying that he
enjoyed the suspense of dragging out the experience.

[speedytinc]

Its like Christmas, at least once a week. Some times Ill have a variety of pieces/parts/tools arrive, not remembering what I got till I open the "surprise present"
"oh yea, that watzit!"

[Duey_C]

"Oh the pain is unbearable waiting for T stuff to arrive."
Ain't it tho Tarik! I was deep into the rear axle on the 18 and waited for more parts. They finally came.
I wait on OT Heli-Coil tooling from daughter's amazon account. I grumbled to myself. Two lost days as I didn't send her the request the correct way. For her. UGH.
Then I realized the things I needed to do to be ready to finish that project. Oops. Got busy.
Oh, the struggle in waiting.

[Mark Nunn]

I just got a call that my front inner wheel bearing is in the mail! Now I can get the car on the road again. Well, I need to wait for it to arrive first. I guess I got ahead of myself.

[OilyBill]

I remember a story i heard years ago, about an auction that was held in the late 1950's or early 1960's.
A wealthy man had been flying his Staggerwing Beech, and managed to pull the wings off it in flight, and of course, died in the accident. This was in the 1930's.
His wife had the wreckage brought home and stored after the funeral. After the funeral, she also refused to acknowledge that her husband had died, insisting to everyone that he would be back in a few days.
She continued this for the rest of her life, until she passed away in 1959 or 1960.
They held an auction and everything on the estate was sold. The airplane wreckage, all of his cars, which had not been touched or driven in years, etc. Also some speedboats, if I remember correctly.
In any case, one of the most fabulous things at the auction were all the parts the guy had ordered, from Rolls-Royce, Duesenberg, and Bugatti, all still in their unopened boxes, with the receipts and paperwork enclosed, along with the letters and correspondence from the factories. He had stuff he had ordered but never opened, and more stuff arrived after he died, and his wife just placed the boxes on shelves "until he gets home and can deal with them".
I know how much I love opening parts boxes when they arrive with new parts for my cars. I can hardly imagine what it was like to open original Bugatti parts boxes and read the correspondence, and see the packing paperwork that was direct from factories that had closed 50 years before anyone ever opened the tape on the boxes. The people who packed the parts, and made the notes on the paperwork were probably dead by then, and the factories, such as Bugatti, were long gone.

[NHUSA]

We recently moved from NH to Raleigh NC and have been ordering stuff from Amazon.
Yesterday the Amazon driver knocked on our door a wondered if we were OK because he hadn’t deliver a package to us in a few days,

It is nice to be cared for!