31 July 2008: 6:00 PM
UHaulin’ Ass
Wow.
What a day.
And it’s still early.
Andy and I got up at 630 today to drive to Russell to pick up our truck. Russell. Yes. And the truck was 26’ instead of 17’, which is what we ordered four months ago when we made our reservation. But it actually turned out to our advantage because we have a lot of stuff.
And we drove through a crap load of fog to get there, only to discover that the UHaul guy wasn’t there.
Fortunately, it being Russell, he lived across the street and so was there only 15 minutes late. It seems that his brother had asked for the day off and his father was supposed to open, but he forgot.
It didn’t really matter that he was late, because our truck, all 26 feet of it, wasn’t there. The guy who had rented it for two days previous to us had received a call from the guy who was refurbishing his car telling him that they no longer fixed up cars and would he come and get it? So he rented the truck to take his car, piece by piece, to some place in Russell. Which turned out not to be waterproof. So he sat and thought about it a bit. And that was why he was 24 hours late.
In the end, we waited from 730 to 1100 for the guy to show up and we were finally on our way shortly after that. One bonus of our three hours spent in Russell was that, aside from enjoying the pretty scenery, we ran into Laura, one of the groomers from work, who lives there. So that was nice.
And then we put stuff, Tetris-fashion, in our 26’ truck with its bouncy Easy-Ride suspension. What a beast. I’m not going to enjoy it.
And all of that took only 4 hours.
So it’s a very disjointed post because it was a disjointed day. I apologize for the nonsense. Stay tuned for more updates. I plan to update daily but I won’t have internet so you’ll have to be patient.
Suddenly my boat-like Impala is looking severely less like a boat.
:s
Hope the drive is going okay!
Posted by: Chelle at August 2, 2008 11:29 AM