{"id":1073,"date":"2007-12-08T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/08\/delta-delivers\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T11:49:37","slug":"delta-delivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/08\/delta-delivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote last night, my suitcase did not arrive with me; it was left in London.\u00a0 Lucky it was tracked, found, and was on it\u2019s way back to me (see Delays below).<\/p>\n<p>Last night someone showed up at the front door at 11:30PM.\u00a0 Needless to say, in this day and age, you do not open the door for any old stranger that rings your doorbell in the middle of the night.\u00a0 A nice enough chap, but he did not have a uniform, identification, or anything else to identify him as the Delta luggage return person.\u00a0 Besides, he did not even have my luggage with him.<\/p>\n<p>My front door is mostly glass, so there is no hiding my disdain as I shake my head and tell the dude that I am not opening the door.\u00a0 He asks if I am expecting a bag from Delta.\u00a0 Well that is a different story.\u00a0 He tells me that he is going to get my bag out of his car.\u00a0 I open the door, and the house alarm starts blaring.\u00a0 Damn!<\/p>\n<p>By the time I sign for the bag, the phone is already ringing with the alarm company.\u00a0 I gave the person the wrong password. It is late; and maybe I have had a few cold ones.\u00a0 At least that is my excuse.<\/p>\n<p>The police show up a couple of minutes later.\u00a0 I explain to the officer what happened.\u00a0 He laughs it off, relieved that it is not the opposite of a false alarm.\u00a0 Meanwhile the alarm company calls my in-laws, who are the alternative contacts for us, but I honestly am not sure why they would call the backups in the middle of the night if they get the wrong alarm code.<\/p>\n<p>Too much adventure for a bag return, but at least Delta did deliver.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote last night, my suitcase did not arrive with me; it was left in London.\u00a0 Lucky it was tracked, found, and was on it\u2019s way back to me (see Delays below). 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