curtains

I did not have a good day today to say the least. As my dad would not accompany my mum, I reluctantly went with her and my aunt to Shenzhen to buy some new curtains for our bedrooms. This painful exercise took a total of 13 hours. Last night, my mum and my aunt obtained measurements of our windows. The trouble started after we got home at 9pm tonight and mum, in her usual lack of patience style, hung the new curtains up. She discovered that the curtains were not wide enough. She immediately called my aunt and complained about being duped by the vendor and how the vendor was dishonest. She gave my aunt the vendor's contact number and asked her to call about the poor quality of work. I don't know why she couldn't call the vendor herself and asked my aunt to call instead. My aunt called back shortly and said the vendor told her that our curtains were made to measurements and asked if we had measured the new curtains. Oops, a quick measure of the new curtains showed that they were indeed made to our measurements. We have no one to blame for the slightly narrow curtains! My mum's jumping to conclusions always irritates me.