Friday, May 1
Delivery Day
Today's Itenerary
- 9: Carpets Cleaned
- 10-12: Cable Coming
- 11-1: Couch delivered
- 11-3: Refigerater delivered
- 4-6: Bed delivered
How much do you want to bet that something will go wrong?
9:20:
Cell phone rings. Carpet cleaners are lost. I give them
directions, and they show up about 9:30 (30 minutes late.)
10:00
Cable man shows up right on time. Allright! He tells me
that he can't run a cable upstairs because I need to give
him a note signed by the homeowner's association president
saying that it is OK to run a cable on the outside of the
house. I look, and there are dozens of cables running every
which way already. All the neighbor's houses look the same
way. sigh... At least I get one TV hooked up.
11:00
Carpet cleaners done. They worked fast. Of course by now,
its raining outside, so I'm told that it will take "a little
longer" for the carpet to dry. Uh oh..
12:00
Couch is delivered on schedule. Its even seup properly.
Woo Hoo!
4:00
You know... the fridge hasn't shown up. A call to the store
reveals that they are totally lost, and don't know where we
are. They have been calling us all day, but we haven't been
answering the phone. Well Duh! We are Moving. A quick
call to retrieve messages from the machine reveals no
messages. If they truly wanted to get ahold of us, why
didn't they leave a message? After talking to the manager
at the store, and him assuring us that he knows exactly
where we live, and 5 minutes later the deliver people
calling us asking where in the hell we live, the fridge
shows up.
5:00
The bed frame and matress show up on time. The bed frame
has no instructions, and is in several pieces. I put it
together and take it apart 3 times before everything is
where it should be.
7:00
We head back to the old place, and start that last minute
packing. Wow, there was alot more of it than I thought.
Sometime before 2 in the morning we finally get to sleep.