The Monday SAGA Walmart sucks!

>0430 alarm went off and I roused myself, It's snowing pretty hard, great, oh well off I go to the big city and got to Supply Chain Management at 0535 or so, well it seems that SCM is really Walmart, I parked the trailer at the door and went inside and gave the receiver my papers, he said " Where's you labourer" I said "HuH?" He siad if you dont have one you better get yourself a pair of steel toed boots and get ready to unload your truck, and if it's not started by 0715 you have to pull out and it's a $1500 penalty, well out to the truck, call the boss at home and ask about this swamper that's supposed to be there, she doesnt know and heads to the office to check it out, I went back in and the receiver says he ( the swamper) showed up and all is OK. I ask when can I get my trailer back and he says maybe 2 or so and gives me a phone # to call. So I unhook the trailer and call my sister-in -law Anne and ask if I can drop by for a coffee and a visit, meanwhile it's still snowing hard and the traffic reports have all the commuters banging into each other so I called her back and told her I was going to park for a while till the rush hour was over. Got to Anne's about 0930 or so

>1330 Called SCM and got an answering machine, so I decided to head back there, whilst on the way I called them again and the girl said no not even 1/2 done perhaps call back around 7 or so, sheesh but nothing I can do so I call Leth and advise them and head back to Anne's house.

1830 I call SCM and the receiver says that I should be able to pick up my trailer around 2230 or 2300 ??????!!!!

Called my boss and asked what the H*ll was going on and what did he know about this outfit, he sort of back handedly admitted during this call that he was aware that this was going to be about a 10 hour stop (nice guy eh! as this is something that he didnt choose to share earlier, like Sunday while he and I were talking on the cell phone and I was talking about a nice Valentines day supper I was going to have with Joan, he knew then I wasn't going to make it)

Anyway, he called the company that gave us this contract and then called SCM and talked to them and then called me back and told me to call SCM at about 2000 or so, I did and they said I could pick up the trailer at 2100.

2030 Thanked Anne for the company and the shower and headed out to get my trailer. Still snowing pretty hard, picked up the empty trailer and headed to LEthbridge ( 200 kms) Couldnt go over 80 kms or so for the first hour of the trip, stopped in Claresholm for a coffee and called Mac to make sure he could pick me up,

0030 parked the truck in the yard and was met by Joan and Mac, loaded my junk in the car and came home.