This weekend Ice Cold Pint is getting back together to shoot a comedy western short film in the desert.
After some amazing thrift store hunting, the final items needed came down to 1. A men’s black cowboy hat. 2. 16oz of fake blood. 3. A dark brown gun holster.
Luckily with Amazon Prime I’m able to get whatever I need (for the most part) within two days. With our shoot coming up four days after the thrifting experience I placed an order on Amazon as soon as Brittany, Oliver, and I wrapped up shopping. Using Prime, gave me an extra two days to make sure the packages arrived.
Today, with two days remaining until the shoot, I received a notification at 8:09am that my packages were attempted to be delivered but there wasn’t a safe location to leave them. Living in an apartment complex is a difficult place to have packages delivered because of this, I can’t let them into the building if I’m not there.
In the notification I was told that the package would reattempt to deliver on the following day, giving me hardly any time to confirm the contents and prepare for the shoot.
Needing my package as soon as possible, I called Amazon to let them know it’s okay to just deliver the package outside the main door of the building and that I will figure it out from there.
I expressed how important it was that this package gets delivered today, so that I have it ready for when I get home from work. I spent nearly fifteen minutes explaining to this woman (in a calm manner) that I need to get this today.
Then it hit me, this woman can see what it is that I’m having delivered. I started to laugh over the phone. I said to her, I just realized that you know what I’m having sent to me. Then she starts laughing and says “I didn’t want to say anything.” We both laughed and I said “I swear there’s a reason why I need these items today.” She laughed and said, “I can only imagine what you have planned with this.” So I began to tell her about the shoot that was taking place over the weekend and that I was going to be playing a cowboy in a short film that I’ll be capturing this weekend in the desert and I want to make sure we have all of the final items. She said “I know exactly what you mean, I just spent the entire night trying to find a candle for my daughter’s birthday.”
It was a great conversation to start my morning. The woman was able to have the package redelivered so that I could get my ridiculous items in time. We had a good laugh.
