Driving a truck, especially on narrow-ish streets can be nervous-making at first, but eventually you get a sense of how much space you're taking up and it gets a lot easier.
When I drove the U-Haul to move to NYC, it turned out I was moving onto a very narrow street. I totally nearly took someone's mirror off. Oops. That did not get easier -- the beginning of the drive was wide DC streets and then highways, so it was more or less OK, but then I had to go through the tunnel, through Manhattan, and on to this narrow street. Traumatic!
I've driven a U-Haul van in Manhattan once, and it was once too much. I need big wide suburban streets for those things. (And I learned to drive on a full-size van, so it's not like I was unfamiliar with the car as such. Just...not in Manhattan. Scary.)
AND they gave me a "free upgrade," so I was driving a larger truck than I even wanted.
Never again. Now I hire movers.
Otherwise, I need to go to the trusty mac store
What I will say about the trusty mac store and my recent hard drive loss is that they were really, really realistic about what they could and could not do for me. In the end, they didn't charge me at all for about 6 hours attention. Actually getting data off (if what were possible, which is was not) would have cost, but they didn't give me false hope in exchange for the chingching. I was graterful.
The drive from Allyson's to Colin's isn't bad, but the drive down his driveway to the street is the sort I'd hate. I make Colin back my Jetta out.
It just sounds easier to me to hire a mover, get it all done in a couple hours, in one trip. I can move everything I can lift into the place at the asscrack o' dawn, and then have movers take the heavy shit.
t unsolicited advice
If you are going to have movers anyway, as long as everything is boxed, just have them move the boxes. Especially books which are heavy.
If you want the number of the non-homosexual, non-expensive, non-ripper-offer movers we used, just let me know.
If you want the number of the non-homosexual, non-expensive, non-ripper-offer movers we used, just let me know.
what's wrong with gay movers? They might be helpful in choosing paint colors :)
Ugh. They're showing my place tomorrow at 10am. I don't have time to clean!
CRAZY!
If you are going to have movers anyway, as long as everything is boxed, just have them move the boxes. Especially books which are heavy.
Oh, my, yes. The movers are used to carrying multiple boxes on their backs, and can move so fast in getting things into the truck. The first time I had enough boxes to move, the movers blew my mind by taking three of them at once and balancing them on their backs with strips of cloth wrapped around them being the only thing keeping them together. One little old man (my move was the last of his career) who was no more than 5'4" was taking three big boxes at once, which were almost as tall as he was, it seemed.
