I placed the order for my car on June 10th.

It was build and finally arrived in the Halifax port on September 2. Yay! Of course I tracked it on its journey across the ocean as well, so I knew when it arrived.

I called up the dealer that day to ask how long it usually took to get from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Kitchener, Ontario. They said about 10 days, plus a couple days for it to “get ready” at the dealership and then I’d have my car. Two weeks, yay! It takes the train to Concord, Ontario, and is then put on a truck to drive down the highway to Kitchener.

Now it’s been 16 days (more than 10!) and it’s still not even at the dealership. As it’s no longer on the boat, I can’t track it any more, but the dealer’s tracking shows it as “on rail”, meaning it’s still on the train. It’s not even on the flat-bed truck that brings it from Concord to Kitchener (1 hour apart).

Ok, that wouldn’t be so bad, it’s not like FedEx and shipping times are neither exact nor guaranteed. However, a person on a Smart forum I’m on just picked up her car in Oakville on Monday the 15th – and her car [i]came over on the same boat as mine[/i]!! For reference, Oakville is roughly halfway between Concord and Kitchener; just a little further South. So it’s not like she’s way closer to Halifax or something.

What did my car do, fall off the train?!?

My dad says it was abducted off the train by a bunch of hobos, and it’s now a hobo-mobile. They are driving around in it with their little chequered sacks sticking out the back window.