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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Not Quite the Scale I Wanted

I have a thing about numbers. My eyes kind of go right past them without really registering what they are. I've always been number challenged and usually I compensate for it by going back and forcing myself to reread them more slowly.

Yeah. I didn't do that this time while online shopping.

I saw the picture, made an assumption, and I'm not sure I did more than glance at the item's description. I know I didn't pay any attention to numbers. Heck, maybe I didn't even read the description. This might have been a full-on assumption on my part.

The Dodgers (my team even though I grew up with the Minnesota Twins) won the world series and I wanted to pick up some merchandise to celebrate. I saw stickers and my eyes lit up. These would be perfect to put on or in my planner!

Um, not quite. (I put an envelope on top to show the scale)


These stickers/decals are HUGE!

I knew something weird was going on when the post office left a box at the door on the day the stickers were supposed to arrive. We have a group mailbox. My post office literally will never come to my door if they have a chance in hell of avoiding it.

My puzzlement grew when I saw this enormous box, a box far too large to fit in the group mailbox's parcel locker, outside my door. How strange, I thought, as I brought it inside. My prevailing theory was that maybe they ran out of boxes. Or maybe the other item I ordered was with the stickers and they forgot to put it on the shipping notice.

And then I opened the box and saw the stickers--decals--filling up nearly the entire bottom of the box.


I like the stickers, but I'm trying to figure out how to use them. Maybe on my laptop case? Two of the stickers might be too large even for that.