I’m going to address you all personally in this one, because I have a moving story that should be heard.
Two summers ago, in Tucson, Arizona, in the middle of May, in the middle of the afternoon when temperatures were boiling into the high 90’s, a friend asked me to help her move out. Move a bed? A table? Sure thing. It’ll take twenty minutes, tops, I told myself.
I arrived with another friend of mine to see a half-filled U-Haul containing a couch, a table and a few chairs. We immediately set to work, lugging a mattress, two bed frames, a table and a TV down a couple flights of stairs to the truck. We loaded them in with the assumption that everything would simply fit.
We were almost done; all we had left was her roommate’s mattress. When we brought it down, though, we realized it would not fit in the truck. The truck was full – there simply was no space to squeeze in a hulking mattress.
We stood there, sweating massively, panting with exasperation under the hot Arizona sun, slowly coming to the realization that we would have to take everything out and reorganize it.
All in all, it took about two terrible hours, but we learned a valuable lesson that day: never begin packing and loading your furniture without taking proper measurements.