So mother is here for the weekend and Denise called us at 8:30 this morning and asked us to come to her place and help her move. I'm sure that Denise and JoLyn will describe the incompetence of the movers that they hired. My job was to take Denise's old mattress to the dump.
We tied the mattress down with bungee cords and Denise told me how to get to the Bountiful city dump. JoLyn came with me and we followed Denise's directions only to end up at a dead end where the road had been closed because it intersected with the new Legacy Highway. We back tracked all the way back to 5th South and Redwood where the detour took us over the new highway overpass and we got to the dump. Once there we were told that since neither of us had a Bountiful drivers license or a Bountiful utility bill we would not be able to use the dump. I took JoLyn back to Denise's apartment and then I went back out to take the mattress to the DI. I was on 5th South just west of Denise's barn when suddenly the bungee cords broke and the king sized mattress went flying out of the back of the truck and struck the windshield of an oncoming car. Luckily nobody was killed or injured in the accident, and the only damage done was a shattered windshield. The police were nice enough not to give me a ticket, and the lady agreed to let me give her a check for the damages right there so we didn't have to go through the insurance company. I wish that I would have thought to take pictures of the mattress, the police car, and the lady's broken windshield for the blog, but I didn't think to do that and it probably would have been in poor taste to have done so.
Suffice it to say that it was not a fun experience, and don't any of you ask me to help you move ever again because I am not going to do it!
4 comments:
I take partial responsibility, as it is my fault that Jen was involved. I will have pictures once I return home and I will also have what I'm sure will be pertinent information, visual evidence, and a rebuttal if necessary.
You poor, poor soul. This operation sounds like a real class act! What is it with Bountiful dump being such a bunch of snobs?
Sounds like great times! I really wish I was there to help move. The least Dee could do would be to include you in the "Three girls and a truck"...because you have definitely taken several for the team lately.
What a fiasco ha ha! Incidentally we were going to include you in the two chicks and a trailer....but we fired you after you lost the mattress on Redwood ha ha! xoxo
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