Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for September 21, 2022

Being able to use damaged goods sort of take the joy out of complaining to the company responsible.

Our most ridiculous case of inadequate packaging was a cardboard box too large for the two jars of white gesso ordered. The jars are plastic. Exactly one small sheet of bubble pack was floating around in the box with the jars. When delivered the box had one corner smashed in, one jar equally smashed, now dried white gesso all over the inside of the box and the somehow un-smashed jar and the piece of bubble pack still floating. We took pics and emailed the vendor. They replaced the entire shipment and that shipment arrived well packed and intact. Must have been from a different warehouse. But the gesso was very late to the planned use date.

I feel this is some special case of l’esprit d’escalier – you have all the adrenaline of the perfect retort, and now no outlet for it. That could be unhealthy.

Stand down Captain Picard.

Demonstrable confidence when you can commit to paper in front of an audience, without the erase-ability of a white board. As if doing it on a near vertical surface isn’t challenging enough.

Only scathing would do for me….then I would realize that in the whole context of life, this is only a minor blip. I’d still keep up the scathing just to save face, or find some other reason they ruined your delivery. Never show your cards….

Now remember class, Scathing Rebukes can be recycled! Just use it before it expires! ; )

I love the parallel of Dan’s “work of art” comment in reference to a tirade over an art supply :D (There’s a term for that, right?)