| 09 August 2011
We love guest posts here at The North End Zone, mainly because it's less work for us and is generally an improvement over our writing anyways. So if you have anything you'd like to hate on, drop us a line at thenorthendzonesuggestions@gmail.com.
The CMU Football Analyst wanted a chance to vent about a subject we all hate: moving. Moving freaking sucks. And anyone under the age of 30 has likely moved at least once every other year. We all pack up our worthless shit and wonder why we don't throw more of it away. Then we continue to not throw it away. My advice? Watch an episode of Hoarders for 8 minutes. You will light everything you own on fire to get rid of it.
Anyways, I will let the Analyst hate on...
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Here's my contribution to Hatefest 2011, edited to PG-13:I recently moved to the suburbs. Moving blows. On the list of horrible, normal life tasks such as grocery shopping, working, paying bills, going to the dentist, etc. Moving has to be near the top of that list. I can hear you saying, "well if you hate moving so much, why don't you stay put?" I would have gladly re-upped on our lease had it not been for a ridiculous raise in rent. ($400/month!) Jerks. I really liked living near stuff too.
So we moved. And of course it so happened to be on the hottest weekend of the year. (105 degree windchill!)
Here is a quick rundown of the crappy tasks involved with moving in no particular order:
- Finding boxes to pack your crap
- Packing your crap
- Cleaning your place so you can hopefully get a fraction of your security deposit back
- Convincing friends to give up a Saturday to help you move your crap (Note: those of you with pickup trucks are basically telling everyone that you are willing and able to move everyone you know) [Editor's note: f*** you]
- Changing your address on everything
- Renting a truck or finding a moving company (for you rich jerks)
- The physical task of actually moving
- Shelling out a lot of money to watch dudes break your stuff and then move it (for you rich jerks)
- Unpacking your crap at your new place
- Wait for cable guy for 6 hours to do a task that takes about 10 minutes
If I missed anything, please add in the comments.
I waited too long to reserve a Uhaul and they were all booked for our moving date, so we ended up hiring a moving company. We didn't have much stuff to move. We moved from a 2 bedroom apartment and we took most of the little stuff that could fit in our cars over the weekend before. (It was hot then too)
The jerks were 2 hours late and sent their B team. The one guy admitted that it was his second day on the job. I expected it to take at most 3 hours and it ended up being nearly 5 partly because they drove about 45 mile per hour on the interstate from the old place to the new place. Now, I understand that they get paid by the hour, but at least show a little effort and don't make it completely obvious that you are milking every minute of it.
Sorry for the long screed but I have moved 5 times over the past 4 years and I absolutely hate it. You would think that I would avoid it, right?
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