the saga continues

i called the car dealer’s to see if they’d finally received the wheels. yes, they had. great, when could i come and pick them up? ah, well, they still had to fit the tyres on. they’d call me back on Friday. having not heard from them by 4pm, i called them. well, the problem was that all the tyres hadn’t actually arrived yet. speechless, i was. they had never mentioned anything about the tyres being missing. in fact, back before i signed on the whole deal, i’d enquired about the tyres, as i knew there was a shortage of winter tyres in Europe, and i’d been assured this wouldn’t be a problem. but it turned out it was. the guy nevertheless assured me that everything would be ready by the end of next week. right. of course. like everything was supposed to be ready for pick up 2 weeks ago…