A courier service is not all about envelopes and packages. Sometimes
we get requests that are out of the ordinary. Here is one of them.
It was Monday afternoon, a pretty busy time for a Los Angeles messenger since it’s right around lunch time. Drivers are ready to
be busy for a good 2 hours or so. When one of our drivers was asked to go to a pet
groomers, he expected to pick up a package or something of that sort, but the dispatcher
gave him a call and said he would be picking up a cat in its cage. He thought
for a second, a cat? He was more of a dog kind of guy, but he thought to
himself, “If it’s in a cage what harm can it do?”
He soon arrived at the groomers
but had to go drive around twice before he found parking. Frustrated, he
finally found parking a block away and just hoped the cat wasn’t heavy to
carry. He walked in and asked for the cat by its name and showed his I.D to validate
he was from 247 Delivers. He waited for a minute or two and then the groomer
came back with a cage bigger than he had expected.
He went on his way but hardly
looked at the cat since he wasn’t really a cat person, but as he placed the cat
in the back seat of his car he noticed a strange smell coming out of the cage. He
didn’t think anything of the smell at the time, he just assumed it was how cats
smelled. He started to drive, looking back every now and then when the light
was red to see if the cat was safe. The cat was very well behaved for the ride,
which was about 30 minutes.
When he arrived at his destination, he opened his
back door and smelled something awful. He pulled out the cage and it was
leaking some sort of liquid. He quickly brought the cat to the door and told
the owner that the cat may need another bath soon. He had another order on his
2-way phone so he had to be on his way right away and had to wait until he was
off later to get his car washed so his car smelled like cat pee for the rest of
the day.
Even after getting his car washed inside and out, the car still
smelled like cat for the next week or so. The driver still isn’t too fond of
cats to this day.
Keep on Truckin'
-Tiffany
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