Wednesday, October 11, 2006

LA Chronicles 5.5

I’m in wonderful Los Angeles trying my best to fight off what appears to be the beginning of a cold. I guess I should cut out my early morning streaking as it can be kind of chilly before 9am. This actually happens once a year, the cough and not the streaking, for about a week. I used to think it was caused by the season change but since my seasons aren’t really changing I guess it is more of a genetic thing. Proof of that whole Nature vs. Nurture argument, not sure which side this supports though.

What better time to catch a cold than the days before your about to move. The good news is that I’ll actually have movers delivering my most cherished belongings. The bad news is I’m not really sure when they will be doing this delivering. For those of you that have moved across the country, you may understand this math. 1) My stuff was picked up on Sept. 29th which is approximately 12 days ago give or take an hour; 2) I asked for everything to be delivered on Oct. 13th which is 2 days from now give or take an hour; 3) It only takes 5 days to drive from OH to CA. My car “shipping” proved this last week. 4) The price of tea in China is $1.84.

Given all that I’d say that it shouldn’t be an issue for me to be ready to move in on Friday. However, this moving company is telling me it could take anywhere from Friday to 10 business days following to make the delivery. This isn’t landing a shuttle on Pluto or delivering a baby or even predicting the weather. It is moving a number of objects from point A to point B and you have a standard deviation of 10 BUSINESS days??? Amazingly they tell you this after you’ve paid half of your money and your belongings are on a truck. Needless to say – I’ll be making a phone call tomorrow.

Robitussins (Tussins) go to the following people:
AH – For calling me out on my knowledge of the City of Angels
Melly Mel – For sharing your experience and hyping me up to cry on the phone tomorrow with the moving company
JH – Happy Birthday Old Lady!!!
CG – For the invite to Jamaica…selfish summa
CS – For the Secret Update
MS – For knowing me for 26 years but only being 22…

M. aka “Living out of busted Luggage”

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