After making the Chicago delivery this morning I beat it out of there as quickly as I could and then stopped at a truckstop on I-80 for some breakfast and to make contact with the two Des Moines locations to notify them that I will be making their deliveries tomorrow morning. Or so I thought.
The one was no problem at all, but when I contacted the second one I was told that they are having some sort of bullshit grand opening open house sort of thing tomorrow and won't be accepting any deliveries. Wonderful.
I suggested that perhaps I could just deliver their stuff to the first place and they could then pick the stuff up there later but it seems they are competition and don't especially like each other. Scratch that.
So I was forced to call the first place again and inform them that thanks to a bullshit delay I wouldn't be able to make their delivery until Friday morning. I'll deliver to them first and the problem child will have to wait. There's no point in my going into Des Moines tomorrow morning to make the one delivery and then have to leave the city to find a place to park over night for the second delivery. May as well do it all at the same time as they're only two miles from each other.
So I am now parked at the "world's largest truckstop", the Iowa 80, about 2.5 hours from Des Moines. I just finished packing my bag and am heading inside for a shower, after which I'll go across the street to Grandma's Place for a couple of cold ones. There's a bright side to everything ya know.