I just went out for lunch and stopped at a shoe repair place to have some new heels put on. When I asked when the shoes would be ready, the guy says "next Thursday." I asked him if I could get them before that, and he says "how about tomorrow?"

Now, I don't know why people do this, but I find it happens in just about every phase of business. It did, however, remind me of a joke I heard a long time ago...

I guy who has cancer goes into a cryogenics lab to have himself frozen until a cure could be found. 150 years later, they wake him up and use some recent medical advances to cure him.

While he's getting dressed to go out into the world, he finds in his pocket a receipt from a shoe repair place that happens to have been just a couple of blocks from the lab. He decides to check it out and, unbelievably, the shop is still in business.

He goes in and presents the receipt... the shoe repair man tells him "they'll be ready Tuesday."

I suppose that if you go through life with low expectations, you'll never be disappointed.