Okay, so I just realized that I have the best friends ever. They always want to help me when and if they can, and I always feel like I never do enough in return. It is weird and nice having people offer to do things for you out of the kindess of their heart. I just don’t know many people who would put themselves out to help you, when there’s nothing to be gained… and those few people I do know who’d do it, I’m lucky enough to call friends.
So, I’m in the middle of moving to Florida. My job starts the June 5th, I am driving out on May 31st. I contracted with a moving company that says, hey yeah, we’ll come get your stuff on the 30th and come between 12 pm and 4 pm. On the 30th, time comes and goes. I call them and they say: Oh, we don’t pick up at the end of the month. Your pick-up date was rescheduled to the 5th, is that okay with you?
WTF???? No, it’s not okay. I will no longer be in Texas on the 5th. I will be at work on the 5th. I hired you guys because you said you could pick up before the 1st. If you had said what you just did now, I would have said: Thank you for your time. Goodbye.
The guy I’m talking to gets an attitude and eventually we work it out to where I have to buy an expensive plane ticket to fly back in two weeks on my days off, so that I can let them into my apartment (which I was supposed to completely check out of today, but couldn’t because my stuff is still in there).
I say, OK… I have to catch a plane on Monday afternoon to go back to be in time for work.
The mover says: We can only come on Monday, but we will come at 7:30 am.
I say: that’s great. Get the stuff out, then I can clean and check out of my apartment.
The guys says: Great, I’ll send you e-mail confirmation.
Next day: No e-mail confirmation. I call and play phone tag for 30 minutes, finally get someone on the phone who tells me, she’ll tell the guy to e-mail me. Later, no e-mail. I call to ask if I’m on the schedule even.
Guy who answers says: Uh yeah.
I ask: At 7:30?
Guy: Oh… there’s no time written on here. Do you need 7:30? Uh, we can do 8? Uh… what do you need us to do anyway?
I say: Cancel my entire order. This is ridiculous. I don’t even trust you guys to come anymore. I’ll figure something else out. Give me my 600 dollar deposit back.
Guy: Well we have you here as VIP. We were going to make sure you were first on our delivery and pick up route, but not trusting us and cancelling your order is your perogative.
WTF???
Do not use All My Sons Moving Company EVER.
Grrrrrrr….. but hey, remember I got the best friends ever, so I did end up working something out that works much better and may save me a little money… though I’d wished we’d thought of it sooner so I wouldn’t have spend money on that plane ticket back!
Anyways, going to bed. Gotta be up at 3:45 to finish driving to Florida. In Alabama, now!
E. Ardell 
Hey there! Moving is a HEADACHE! I’m graduating college in December from Indiana and plan on moving to Florida sometime after that. I’m nervous about moving, but glad I don’t have much of any stuff (been living in a dorm and a furnished ministry house…so I really don’t have much of anything). Did you end up renting a trailer and moving yourself or driving with a bunch of friends or something? I don’t know how I feel about driving with all of my stuff all the way from Indiana to Florida, but don’t have a ton of money to spend.
I’m glad you got to Florida safely! It’s so exciting to start fresh somewhere! Looking forward to that myself. 🙂
I ended up packing my little car up with as much stuff as I could and driving with a good friend. It took 2 days. As for the rest of my stuff, I am going to ship it via greyhound. I just learned about it recently, and I am donating my little pieces of furniture to Salvation Army who does free pick-up.
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