I ordered fresh supplies of suet balls from Amazon for our feathered friends. On Saturday, the delivery driver managed to slip under the radar, ring the doorbell without me hearing it and deposit a humungous big box on the doorstep.
😡When I eventually got notified by my Alexa that the delivery had taken place, I was slightly concerned about the size of the box.
I was even more concerned to see the box inside said "Pain + Liberation" on the side.
😱Was this some sort of S&M apparatus?
Yes, in my time I've wrongly been sent a rather fetching but skimpy negligee and an XXXXL pair of winceyette bloomers that would've looked big on Nellie The Elephant.

Thankfully, it turned out to be one of those memory foam, wedge shaped, orthopaedic support pillow thingies.
Curiously enough, I was considering getting one of those. Had Amazon developed some ESP mind probe app for Alexa, I wondered?
"I could have a look and see if it was suitable", thought I. I had one problem, it was vacuum sealed and like the Genie in a Bottle, once let loose, I'd never get it back inside the packaging. I confess that for one nanosecond I did think, "Keep schtoom about it, Dez and say nothing - they'll never know."
But as "Honesty is the best policy" has always been my policy, I decided to get in touch with Amazon.
Getting past their AI Customer Support Chat Bot is a Catch22 nightmare, but I persisted, and eventually made contact with a human being.
🙄
I was very pleasantly surprised to be told, "You don't have to return it. You may use it, donate it or recycle it as you wish." And, that there was a replacement delivery of birdy suet balls winging their way to me, at no extra charge.
(I wonder what'll be delivered this time?)
Not being a person to look a gift orthopaedic support pillow in the mouth, I liberated it from its packaging and its currently supporting my tired old back, in bed, while I write.
🙂
It does the job well!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And a 5.7 on the meter today.
Dez