This morning I was expecting a Sainsbury's delivery. When it didn't turn up I waited nearly an hour before phoning the helpline to find out where on earth it was.
I was told it had been left next door with my grandson. Yes, they live next door but why leave it there????
I trotted up the garden path and hammered on the back door. It was 11.30 so still the middle of the night for an eighteen year old. When I finally roused him he was pleased to tell me he'd got my delivery and he'd even remembered to put the frozen gateau in the freezer. 
So.....Instead of pointing the delivery driver in my direction (just a few yards down the drive) he moved their Christmas tree and all that sails in her away from the front door which they hardly ever use - that's why the Christmas tree had been put up in front of it. Using the kitchen door, of course, would of been a more sensible option but he didn't think of that.
Did he ring or message me to let me know where my shopping had turned up? Of course not. He went back to bed!!
He's a lovely lad, just home from Uni where he's studying politics and when he grows up he wants to join the Intelligence Service 
Brilliant Merlot thank you for sharing that with us! We are just entering that twilight teenage zone so it is good to remember all that we have to come.
That's really funny Merlotgran - so typical of teenagers.
Reminded me of years ago when I came home from work one day during the school holidays and one of my teenagers very proudly announced that he'd 'helped me' by going through my FREEZER and had thrown out everything that had past it's sell-by date! 
The delivery driver who came the other day seemed brighter than anyone else I had dealt with at the firm
I was so thankful that he, at least, knew what was going on!
Delivery drivers are not the brightest either. We waited in all day Tuesday for a delivery by parcel force, paid extra for named day delivery, never arrived. DH rang parcel force and they said it had been delivered and signed for four hours earlier
We checked CCTV and saw van driver get out of van, looked straight at our front door and promptly walked across the road and left the parcel in a neighbours porch and signed his machine himself.
He probably thought it was some weird, incomprehensible arrangement made by adults (who knows how adults' brains work?!) and he did his best in the circumstances.
Sympathies merlot, mine came home today, after going to the train station at 7am and got on the train, only to be told off the guard that he shouldn't be on it and had to get on as his ticket was for the 12 noon train! Back to uni and a wait for the later train! These people are supposed to be intelligent!
Apparently they have a chart on their landing to see who gets the most "idiot" stickers, I do think my son is winning at the moment. I've just thought that I have to think of him as an alien, you know, like E.T., who comes to visit and then "phone home". At least now I know that he is only here for three weeks, I will get myself back to myself sooner than I know. And in the meantime, I will enjoy the alien.
I must be thankful it wasn't his younger brother who hasn't broken up yet. He'd have been half way down the chocolate digestives. 
Love it, so typically teenage behaviour. The boy will go far I've no doubt. 
He he he! Oh what a darlin'.
Love it !
I have the female version..
At least you got your own back by waking him up!
One likes to imagine that he presumed you'd arranged (for reasons only you know) to have your delivery at his house so took it in thinking you would come to collect it at your convenience.
On second thoughts he's a teenage 'man' two disadvantages to sensible behaviour.
Planet Zog
Thank you for that merlotgran, it cheered me up no end!
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