LONDON -- Sometimes your best laid plans can crumble in the face of abject stupidity.
Twitter user Nicola Davies discovered that this week as she planned a surprise for her mum on Mother's Day. She ordered a box of party goods ahead of the big day, and made a special note asking for the package to remain discrete.
"It's a surprise party for my mother and we live together," she carefully explained when she made the order. "So please can the box not look obvious it's party supplies."
This is how it was delivered.
Tried to surprise my mum for Mother's Day. put this in the special requirements and they FUCKIN PRINT IT ON THE BOX pic.twitter.com/jXHWmVKFlG— Holly Golightly (@NicoleDaviess_) February 27, 2016
"Tried to surprise my mum for Mother's Day," Davies wrote in a tweet with the image, "put this in the special requirements and they fuckin print it on the box."
The tweet has been retweeted almost 5,000 times, with some people suggesting the fact she wrote the text in the "delivery instructions" box meant it was automatically added to that field and might not have been checked by human eyes. Some even said it was her fault the spoiler was writ large on the box.
Either way, happy Mother's Day mum.
Others responded with their own tales of woe.
@NicoleDaviess_ @_L_M_C_ Argos delivered a friend's husband's Xmas pressie to their house without *any* external packaging at all.— Kat Ellis (@KatEllis37) February 28, 2016
@NicoleDaviess_ Could have been worse. pic.twitter.com/ucw6wBD2oP— Bobbito Ball (@bobbitoball) February 28, 2016
Maybe next time, send the parcel elsewhere?