An undeliverable promise
This is a big event for me these days. My parcel was on its way. Then suddenly, at the last minute all my hopes were dashed. I was here at home (I am never anywhere else). The notice was on the gate, ‘Please leave parcel on table’. The table was there. What could have gone wrong? I had been eyeing my tracking page all day. It had made great progress and was ‘Out for delivery’. I waited for hours, it got dark, but I didn’t give up. At 9pm we heard a van outside, a door banged, and then the van was gone, in a flash. We hurried to the table but there was nothing there. I checked my email and it said, ‘Parcel undeliverable’. How can a parcel be undeliverable? We have got used to some promises being undeliverable, this year, but sometimes you can see why. This time I cannot. They should not have promised if they couldn’t deliver. There was no reason given as to why it could not be left here. When I was a little girl, I lived on a remote farm, miles away from the nearest village. Our...