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Ahahahahahahaha.
So, I'm moving halfway across the continent. On Thursday, U-Haul dropped off three of their pods in my driveway, on Saturday, a group of people (mostly farmers, a couple other miscellaneous blue-collar types) from my two congregations gathered and loaded all my stuff into them. At 9AM they showed up; by 11AM they were done and we were all eating pizza. It was incredible to watch and direct.
So, today was my last day at the church here. Tomorrow I drive down to the city, sell my jeep to the dealership, and get on a plane home. The pods filled with my stuff will get picked up by UHaul in a few days and get shipped after me.
Worship was wonderful, so was the potluck. Afterwards, Mom and I went to an outdoor museum and then drove along the river, it was lovely.
And we got home and I looked at Mom and said, "You know what? I think I forgot to get the title to the Jeep out of the filing cabinet before it got packed."
So! We opened up one pod, poked around, couldn't see it. (These things are packed like 3D Tetris so that stuff can't shift in transit.) Opened up a second one, poked around, didn't see it.
Called one of the guys who'd packed it, who confirmed that it was indeed in the second one, but he thought it was all the way in the back, which would have meant completely unloading it. With just me and my mom. So we got started. Fortunately, it was only like three layers back.
Even MORE fortunately, by the time we had spotted it and were starting to get to it, a couple showed up who hadn't been able to be at worship this morning, and wanted to say goodbye! They helped us re-pack all the stuff we had to unpack. The title to the Jeep was indeed in there, and now I have it.
I remembered to get out my passport and social security card from the filing cabinet before it was loaded! Just not the title. But we found it, without TOO much trouble, and there was great rejoicing.
That was still much more stress than I really WANTED, and now I'm panicking that I've forgotten something ELSE critical.
And the thing is? A couple hours later, someone turned up at the door offering me $500 less than the Jeep dealership is going to give me. And it's someone I know, someone who would have teased me about the whole thing but have been okay with waiting for the title.
So, I'm moving halfway across the continent. On Thursday, U-Haul dropped off three of their pods in my driveway, on Saturday, a group of people (mostly farmers, a couple other miscellaneous blue-collar types) from my two congregations gathered and loaded all my stuff into them. At 9AM they showed up; by 11AM they were done and we were all eating pizza. It was incredible to watch and direct.
So, today was my last day at the church here. Tomorrow I drive down to the city, sell my jeep to the dealership, and get on a plane home. The pods filled with my stuff will get picked up by UHaul in a few days and get shipped after me.
Worship was wonderful, so was the potluck. Afterwards, Mom and I went to an outdoor museum and then drove along the river, it was lovely.
And we got home and I looked at Mom and said, "You know what? I think I forgot to get the title to the Jeep out of the filing cabinet before it got packed."
So! We opened up one pod, poked around, couldn't see it. (These things are packed like 3D Tetris so that stuff can't shift in transit.) Opened up a second one, poked around, didn't see it.
Called one of the guys who'd packed it, who confirmed that it was indeed in the second one, but he thought it was all the way in the back, which would have meant completely unloading it. With just me and my mom. So we got started. Fortunately, it was only like three layers back.
Even MORE fortunately, by the time we had spotted it and were starting to get to it, a couple showed up who hadn't been able to be at worship this morning, and wanted to say goodbye! They helped us re-pack all the stuff we had to unpack. The title to the Jeep was indeed in there, and now I have it.
I remembered to get out my passport and social security card from the filing cabinet before it was loaded! Just not the title. But we found it, without TOO much trouble, and there was great rejoicing.
That was still much more stress than I really WANTED, and now I'm panicking that I've forgotten something ELSE critical.
And the thing is? A couple hours later, someone turned up at the door offering me $500 less than the Jeep dealership is going to give me. And it's someone I know, someone who would have teased me about the whole thing but have been okay with waiting for the title.
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Date: 2018-07-18 07:44 pm (UTC)From:I'm sorry that you need it, but you do have the perfect icon for this post.
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Date: 2018-07-18 11:22 pm (UTC)From:Thank you!