5 days to go...
OK so I had a true bridezilla moment today. I dropped off the programs at a print shop near my work. Explained I wanted program details on left, wedding party on the right. Copied onto programs. Insert 1/2 page for directions, and a 2 sided 1/2 page for another insert I am using. Put this on top of that, and put them all together and fold in half. No problem, says the little Indian man.
He even has me do it again so he makes sure he understands the order I want. Very impressed, I drop them off and say I will pick them up Monday morning. I remind him these are all I have and that I am getting married in a week. No problem, he says again.
So here we are on Monday. I go skipping into the store and am met with a different little Indian man. I give him my name and he hands me a big cardboard box. That will be $89.00 he says. I ask to see them and open the box to find the 1/2 page directions all wrapped in an elastic. The other insert is two sided, but it's a full page. So all the components are there, but nothing is put together. My pulse racing and blood pounding in my ears, I ask him what this is, it's not done, and that I want to see the service clerk who took the order. He is on vacation for two weeks, I am told. "Why wasn't this collated?" I ask. "What is mean that word collate?" is his reply. I just lose it. I am standing there literally shaking and asking him how a guy who works and a freakin' printshop cannot know what that word means, these are for my wedding in 5 days, I thought by leaving them on Friday with this shop it would be one less thing to worry about and I have more than enough to do last minute without having to have a folding and stuffing party.
"OK lady OK," he says, backing away from me. "I will give you money off. I will make you happy. Please do not cry in my store. I am sorry. I will make it better, OK?" He promptly takes $30.00 off and asks if I would mind just putting them all together. I pull it together, thank him for understanding and pay the terrified little man. I calm down on the walk to work, and get to work and find this email from Rob.
HE: Did you get the programs? 5 days. I love you.
ME: Yes I got the programs. We have work to do tonight in collating them, it was not done at all. I had a wicked Bridezilla moment this morning at the copy place, but I got $30 off the price which was cool.
HE: What is collating?
ME: putting them together.
HE: I guess I'm an idiot LOL
...sigh This book is going to be a best seller. All brides to be will worship me. :)
He even has me do it again so he makes sure he understands the order I want. Very impressed, I drop them off and say I will pick them up Monday morning. I remind him these are all I have and that I am getting married in a week. No problem, he says again.
So here we are on Monday. I go skipping into the store and am met with a different little Indian man. I give him my name and he hands me a big cardboard box. That will be $89.00 he says. I ask to see them and open the box to find the 1/2 page directions all wrapped in an elastic. The other insert is two sided, but it's a full page. So all the components are there, but nothing is put together. My pulse racing and blood pounding in my ears, I ask him what this is, it's not done, and that I want to see the service clerk who took the order. He is on vacation for two weeks, I am told. "Why wasn't this collated?" I ask. "What is mean that word collate?" is his reply. I just lose it. I am standing there literally shaking and asking him how a guy who works and a freakin' printshop cannot know what that word means, these are for my wedding in 5 days, I thought by leaving them on Friday with this shop it would be one less thing to worry about and I have more than enough to do last minute without having to have a folding and stuffing party.
"OK lady OK," he says, backing away from me. "I will give you money off. I will make you happy. Please do not cry in my store. I am sorry. I will make it better, OK?" He promptly takes $30.00 off and asks if I would mind just putting them all together. I pull it together, thank him for understanding and pay the terrified little man. I calm down on the walk to work, and get to work and find this email from Rob.
HE: Did you get the programs? 5 days. I love you.
ME: Yes I got the programs. We have work to do tonight in collating them, it was not done at all. I had a wicked Bridezilla moment this morning at the copy place, but I got $30 off the price which was cool.
HE: What is collating?
ME: putting them together.
HE: I guess I'm an idiot LOL
...sigh This book is going to be a best seller. All brides to be will worship me. :)
posted by Andrea and Rob Haskell at 3:03 PM
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