general whining

hi folks. I've been gunning for an epi. dove for awhile. The wife finally gave me the green light. She wasn't out of the room and my fat little fingers were flying across the key board placing my order. It shipped to work via u.p.s. It came in thursday. I didn't sign for it though.  I got it back into the shop and hmmmm. Whats this? A hole in the outer box. hmmmm. what's this? A hole in the inner box. Grrrrrrr!!!  A hole in the top of the guitar!  I've got another one enroute but I was sooo close. I won't know how the epi stacks up against the tak till later. Oh yeah, the case was on back order and shipped a day later.  It came through without a scratch! So here I sit at twenty below and blowing snow.