I have no idea why I think any of you might care about the minutiae of my life. However, it’s never stopped me before and I’m going to tell you about it again.

Those of you who have dined at our place know that we use large, white, square dinner plates as salad plates. These let us have free creative plating rein. Easy to add an accompanying item or garnish to the plate with the main salad, whatever form that might take.

Inevitably, over the years the number of said plates has dwindled at a fairly steady rate; we use them every single day. I no longer remember where I purchased them 10+ years ago, so we set out to find more of the same style.

OMWC and I have visited various restaurant supply stores (date night!), looked around websites etc, but have never found the exact plate. It’s annoying to drag them out each night and see chipped corners, and we are down to just three, so we can never use them for guests anyway.

Well, I finally found some online that are very close to what we have, including the width of the rim and the actual food area. (Wait, don’t you measure your plates?) So on Thursday I ordered two sets of six each. Due to arrive sometime between 21-24 September.

This afternoon, Wonder Dog let us know that someone was on the porch before my security camera notification could even pop up. A gentleman left a box propped against the door.

I just went out to retrieve it and was confused to find…a package from Walmart.com that contains six smaller, regular-salad-size versions of the plates which I ordered. No, I didn’t order the smaller size as well. No, I didn’t order the larger plates from Walmart (and haven’t ordered anything from Walmart since last spring). No, the tracking number doesn’t show who sent the package.

The tracking on my actual order from another vendor shows that they are still scheduled to arrive next week. And the tracking number doesn’t match.

And none of our cards have been charged for this order.

My conclusion is that someone who has been here for dinner heard me complain about the dwindling “salad plate” supply and has sent us a gift. Maybe.

Or the vendor from whom I ordered just purchases their supply from Walmart and messed up and sent me a box of the smaller plates. Probably more likely.

 

Now that you’ve heard  all about my exciting life, enjoy your Sunday Night Open Post!