Nearly two weeks ago after taking my electric toothbrush out of mothballs, I decided to look for replacement heads online. The first place I always check is Amazon.com who indeed had just what I needed for a fraction of the cost. $3.99 for 4 replacement heads is a fraction of what I would have paid at Costco. Ever since I have been excitedly waiting for my shipment. I checked the USPS tracking information and it was processed through a place called Jamaica, NY on February 22nd. It turns out that Jamaica is a neighbourhood in Queens which is a stone's throw away from the fictional location of the King of Queens TV show in Rego Park, Queens. I thought to myself, how could my toothbrushes end up in an episode of the King of Queens...? Hmm...
Carrie becomes a paralegal after taking some night school courses and decides to invest in personal hygiene products including the same reliable mid-range Oral-B toothbrush that I use.
She instructs Doug to pick up some replacement brush heads for her new toothbrush. He doesn't bring along enough cash to pay and comes back emptyhanded. The next morning at work he spots my package, takes it, opens it carefully and gives the contents to his wife. He tells himself that this will buy him some time and that it isn't wrong because he's going to buy more brush heads soon enough pop them into the package and mail them to me. There's one small problem though. My brush heads are a German knock-off brand of slightly inferior quality and they're not the expensive authentic Oral-B ones from Costco. Carrie accuses Doug of being a cheapskate, tells him that the bristles are too thick and questions him about "Where the heck these crappy brush heads came from." Doug then has to go to Costco, buy 2 4-packs for $20 each, mails one to me and uses the other one to appease his wife.
The show ends with him successfully fooling his boss and his vain wife grinning strangely.
So there you go, the reason why I don't have my package is because the King of Queens tampered with it.
Also, the show's characters are so predictable that I and surely many others can easily rattle off a reasonable storyline at 1am without much thinking.
Carrie becomes a paralegal after taking some night school courses and decides to invest in personal hygiene products including the same reliable mid-range Oral-B toothbrush that I use.
She instructs Doug to pick up some replacement brush heads for her new toothbrush. He doesn't bring along enough cash to pay and comes back emptyhanded. The next morning at work he spots my package, takes it, opens it carefully and gives the contents to his wife. He tells himself that this will buy him some time and that it isn't wrong because he's going to buy more brush heads soon enough pop them into the package and mail them to me. There's one small problem though. My brush heads are a German knock-off brand of slightly inferior quality and they're not the expensive authentic Oral-B ones from Costco. Carrie accuses Doug of being a cheapskate, tells him that the bristles are too thick and questions him about "Where the heck these crappy brush heads came from." Doug then has to go to Costco, buy 2 4-packs for $20 each, mails one to me and uses the other one to appease his wife.
The show ends with him successfully fooling his boss and his vain wife grinning strangely.
So there you go, the reason why I don't have my package is because the King of Queens tampered with it.
Also, the show's characters are so predictable that I and surely many others can easily rattle off a reasonable storyline at 1am without much thinking.
You were able to relate your toothbrush experience to an episode! It's a good thing they did not deliver it somewhere else. Haha! I haven’t watched a lot of episodes from this series, but I’m going to try to watch this.
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