I buy a lot of stuff via Amazon. Lots of it is household goods like cleaners and the like. Most of it, however, amounts to my attempt at solutions to problems that arguably didn’t need to be solved. Things that bother me, don’t quite work right, or simply could be easier become an Amazon order. Amazon has almost everything, so a bolt, gadget, or device suitable to the task in some way is likely to be there somewhere.
Shipments
It is not uncommon at our house to have a shipment from Amazon arrive every day during a given week. The shipping companies each have their unique way of proving delivery, but a couple of the ones around here use a photograph of the delivered parcel. This can be handy, especially when your property is a bit larger than the usual city lot.
Some of the proof of delivery pictures are crystal clear, others are unusably blurry. But today we received one that seems decidedly noir, if not downright ominous:
The dark side of the parcel
The contents of the parcel were incredibly mundane: a little tray, a steel sugar bowl, and a couple of similar related items all intended to make my ‘coffee station’ more efficient. And, if I’m being entirely honest, these bits also aimed at making me a bit less prone to me over-reaching to its former location in the centre of the counter and dropping things. So nothing in the box was even a tad ‘ominous’.
But that proof of delivery picture surely was. Somewhere, a Detective Parcel is talking about dames and fog, and how the two just don’t mix.
