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TIFU by making a little old lady think the Devil was after her

Obligatory this didn't happen today, though the fallout occurred early this morning. So I live in the PNW and we are currently in the middle of a bomb cyclone. So while the west side is getting pelted with wind and rain, we are getting a few feet of snow overnight. In anticipation of this, I ordered a very large order of bugs for my reptiles. We are talking a few hundred mealworms, superworms, dubia roaches, hornworms, etc. I set it to priority shipping and waited.

Monday afternoon I get the notification that the bugs have been delivered. I text my BF and let him know. He looked all over the property and tells me there is no package, but sometimes delivery drivers in the area mark packages as delivered when they are on their way to deliver them. So we wait. Not long after, the mail person arrives. But still, no bugs. I go into the app to check on the tracking and my heart sinks.

The delivery didn't go to MY address.

See, a few weeks ago a friend of mine's grandmother - who has dementia - lost her sister. Being the nice person I am, I sent her a gift basket and a nice card. What I didn't realize was that her address was now saved as the default shipping address. And she was now in possession of a very large box of bugs.

So I messaged my friend and let her know what happened and that she could just mark the box as returned to sender. That way, grandma wouldn't have to deal with it and I would get a refund once the box hit the company. Unfortunately, grandma opened the box first. She proceeded to have a two day long panic attack and now thinks the devil is after her. The entire family is in full rage mode because no one can calm grandma down, and I am out money and bugs.

tl;dr: Put the wrong address in when ordering bugs and sent them to a little old lady with dementia who thought the bugs were a sign that the devil was trying to steal her soul.

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