'Free delivery'

Interestingly, 'free delivery' doesn't actually mean 'free' or in fact 'delivery'.

This is my First Piece of Furniture - a mattress bought from deep within the bowels of a shipping container painted canary yellow off a side road in the middle of just about nowhere.

Very excited to get it home (to stop the echoes), I asked about delivery. In response, my vendor friend hailed the next station wagon taxi and lashed it to the roof with two bits of bailing twine.

I sat in the passenger seat holding on to my side of the mattress and praying for clear traffic and no rain.

And I had to pay for the taxi.