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Poor Spill, because she has a truck and a flexible schedule, she is “extra available” to help move people. BUT, she likes helping people… so all’s okay. Toil is pretty close to what most people call “helping friends move.”
Poor Spill, because she has a truck and a flexible schedule, she is “extra available” to help move people. BUT, she likes helping people… so all’s okay. Toil is pretty close to what most people call “helping friends move.”
Being a guy with a pickup truck, I can relate to spill.I am often asked to help someone move. (sometimes,I am not asked. Only told to be at some adress at a specific time to load furniture into my truck!) Half of the time I don’t even know the people that I am told to help move.
Sometimes I do know the people or person I am asked or told to move.
I’ve moved Mr. Firedome (Frank) three times!
I want to be the guy with a pickup truck again! Alas, a job 20 miles from home and raising five sons have led to the inevitable two vehicles of a mini-van and a small fuel efficient car. Still, over the past 30+ years, I’ve managed to own four pickup trucks, all small/medium sized.
Now that one son is married and moved out and two more are in their early 20s, I’m hoping to give the Subaru car to one of them and get my wife and I a pickup truck. (She likes ’em, too.) It also helps that the company now pays for my gas to/from work.
Oh, Spill: pretending to carry that same box of clothes again and again so she wont have to help lugging that huge couch around!
She’s a crafty one (an “arts-and-crafty” one, if you will!).
Moving is such a stressful thing. I used to help people move a lot just to take a little of the load off them. – Still do, if asked.
A word to the wise… don’t offer up any of the beer and pizza “pay” to your volunteer movers until the job is done, or nothing will get moved. Early sodas or coffees are okay but will result in more bathroom breaks.
squid man… when I had my truck, had adopted an attitude of: when I didn’t have a truck, I asked truck people for help. Now that I have a truck, I can return the favor. Pass on the favors.
Pete… I must say my little Toyota 2-WD “passenger truck” was incredibly useful. Moving big canvases, moving myself and others, huge items and hauling to the dump were made easy! I do miss my little truck… but it was time to move on.
Dada… Ha… I think the couch is blocking the doorway out of the apartment.
That box must be getting heavy by now!
Lee… Moving IS stressful! and good on you for helping others! It does the soul good, don’t it?
stick… Coffee is a great energy boost! I would say that the more coffee the better… bathroom breaks are what, two minutes? I’d say that fact that they showed up to help would allow for multiple trips to the loo if necessary.
I always offered to help people move even back when I had my Yaris (got the Prius I wanted, now). Couldn’t move furniture, but I could at least load a bunch of boxes and make a run. 😀
Somewhere I read “A good friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move bodies.”
Grey…. a body to help schlep is always welcome in a move. Judy has a little Golf… and BOY… can she fill that thing up! They’re actually pretty spacious with the hatchback. I imagine Yaris and Priuses (?) can be stuffed to the gills.
Kona… so Kona… I got this really big duffle… um…