ON Tuesday morning, Mike Levin, Hong Kong-based correspondent for Billboard magazine, decided to try out the delivery service from the new Park 'N Shop on Macdonnell Road.
He bought $900 worth of groceries and checked that they would deliver to his flat in Prince's Terrace, near Caine Road. Fine, said staff.
Starting on Wednesday morning, he heard (in order during nine calls to Park 'N Shop over the following three days), the following reasons for its non-appearance: ''We can't find your place.'' ''We came, but you weren't home.'' (''I was,'' insists Mike.) ''It's too difficult to deliver to your house.'' (You can't drive right up to Mike's building.) ''The men are too tired to deliver to your house.'' ''We don't deliver to your area; you'll have to come and pick it up.'' ''We sent them to the wrong place.'' ''You gave us the wrong address.'' ''They delivered the groceries to number 12.'' (Mike's is number one.) ''They can't retrieve them because no one is at home at number 12.'' To give them their due, the company did apologise gracefully when Mike, close to starvation, ran out of patience and threatened to invoke the name of Lai See.
The groceries were delivered yesterday afternoon - along with a young lady carrying a box of chocolates and a bottle of champagne.
Sounds like a treat worth losing a little weight for.
Rough wisdom VETERAN Australian golfer Greg Norman said this week that when you lose a tournament ''you've really got to swallow the bullet''.