Right around Christmas I took the liberty of ordering myself a little present. (Afterall, you have to look out for yourself during the holidays and my birthday is the 26th.) Anyway, I took advantage of Burnett & Struth's casual kilt salt and ordered a 5 yd. kilt in the Rotary Tartan. (I wanted to wear the kilt to a Rotary function being held in early March.) I paid in full and my card was charged for shipping in mid-January. Days, weeks, months passed and finally the Jones set in. I wanted to know where in the world was my kilt.

Fast forward to yesterday. I e-mailed B&S to inquire as to the delay. (I have ordered 3 kilts from them in the past and their usual turn-a-round time is about a month.) I received a reply this morning that the kilt had been shipped and received at my school on January 26th. They were kind enough to include the tracking number from Candian Post.

Stay with me....I went to the main building where all the mail is sorted and all packages are delivered. (I've failed to mention that I have most of my kilt stuff sent to work so that my wife can't monitor my purchases. I know, it's bad to keep if from her, but she's on a need to know basis as far a kilts go.) Well, I took a look around the mail room. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted at kilt size flat box under a table. The box was badly damaged and taped with USPS Priority Mail tape. The label included my school's address, but my name was not on the label. Also stamped on the box was "received unsealed" and "damaged in handling". The kicker is the tissue paper is in the box, but the kilt is missing.

So, I have a box with and invoice, but no kilt. I'm looking into it at school just to see if anyone opened it since there was no addressee except the school; however, I would think the person at the front desk would sent out a mass e-mail regarding the "mystery package or kilt".

Somewhere is the world there is a Rotary Tartan kilt with my name on it. Go figure........and if you know where it is please let me know.