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So I’ve obviously mentioned our move to France. Timing with Covid not so great, had some issues, yadda yada.
Coming back, we made sure to hire a super reputable moving firm, and just hope all the subcontracted work would go smooth.
They loaded up a truck in France, then after they took half of our belongings, said oops it was a miscalculation, if you want the rest taken it’ll be an additional 10k. They had half our stuff hostage at the docks, we had to say okay. Next day they show up with a tiny truck, fill it, and say that’s all you paid for. We ended up leaving quite a bit behind, but grabbed most of the favorites. It was last minute, and sadly chose between some really meaningful, powerful stuff to squeeze in vs throw away in the airport parking lot. Boo hoo, you’re going home suck it up.
Arrive in the US! Go buy some cheap target clothes because they took your suitcase of clothes. House gets delayed repeatedly, spend a fortune on air B&Bs, but today’s the day!!!
We’re in the house, movers are delayed. And delayed. Delayed again. It’s 8 pm, no one knows where they are. I don’t even know who’s lying, the contractor, dispatcher, sub contractor?
Aha they’re here! That’s not a shipping container on a semi....it’s a family in a Uhaul. This is not making fun of their physical appearance, it’s strictly regarding their line of work - a short, portly man and 3 short, VERY portly women. In a Uhaul.
They proceed to carry in a mattress for us to sleep on (my kids are asleep on the floor in their empty rooms). They don’t have the physical capabilities to lift the mattress, so they drag it upstairs, barely able to breathe to completion. They bring one more in. They’re parking the Uhaul and will be back tomorrow. Showed me some pictures, somehow all of our stuff is unwrapped. We watched the movers wrap stuff. But now it’s unwrapped. Some broken. Random non painters tape all over furniture.
And in all it’s glory, this is our King size mattress they dropped off at 11 PM for us to sleep on:
Unwrapped/unsealed, torn, and brand new stains, yay. We obviously won’t be sleeping on it tonight.
This isn’t complaining, or misery loves company. My wife and I just stood in the room and thought this was as insane as anything we could’ve imagined. Literally don’t know if it’s time to laugh or cry. WTF happened? This isn’t customs, they don’t just undo everything and send it off. How the hell did our stuff get tossed and wrecked between France and here?
It’s a mystery whodunnit, and story that I would say is some fake reddit post if I wasn’t living it. I don’t even know how these “movers” are going to get everything in tomorrow. At least maybe they’ll have masks or shoe coverings tomorrow, doubt it.
Coming back, we made sure to hire a super reputable moving firm, and just hope all the subcontracted work would go smooth.
They loaded up a truck in France, then after they took half of our belongings, said oops it was a miscalculation, if you want the rest taken it’ll be an additional 10k. They had half our stuff hostage at the docks, we had to say okay. Next day they show up with a tiny truck, fill it, and say that’s all you paid for. We ended up leaving quite a bit behind, but grabbed most of the favorites. It was last minute, and sadly chose between some really meaningful, powerful stuff to squeeze in vs throw away in the airport parking lot. Boo hoo, you’re going home suck it up.
Arrive in the US! Go buy some cheap target clothes because they took your suitcase of clothes. House gets delayed repeatedly, spend a fortune on air B&Bs, but today’s the day!!!
We’re in the house, movers are delayed. And delayed. Delayed again. It’s 8 pm, no one knows where they are. I don’t even know who’s lying, the contractor, dispatcher, sub contractor?
Aha they’re here! That’s not a shipping container on a semi....it’s a family in a Uhaul. This is not making fun of their physical appearance, it’s strictly regarding their line of work - a short, portly man and 3 short, VERY portly women. In a Uhaul.
They proceed to carry in a mattress for us to sleep on (my kids are asleep on the floor in their empty rooms). They don’t have the physical capabilities to lift the mattress, so they drag it upstairs, barely able to breathe to completion. They bring one more in. They’re parking the Uhaul and will be back tomorrow. Showed me some pictures, somehow all of our stuff is unwrapped. We watched the movers wrap stuff. But now it’s unwrapped. Some broken. Random non painters tape all over furniture.
And in all it’s glory, this is our King size mattress they dropped off at 11 PM for us to sleep on:
Unwrapped/unsealed, torn, and brand new stains, yay. We obviously won’t be sleeping on it tonight.
This isn’t complaining, or misery loves company. My wife and I just stood in the room and thought this was as insane as anything we could’ve imagined. Literally don’t know if it’s time to laugh or cry. WTF happened? This isn’t customs, they don’t just undo everything and send it off. How the hell did our stuff get tossed and wrecked between France and here?
It’s a mystery whodunnit, and story that I would say is some fake reddit post if I wasn’t living it. I don’t even know how these “movers” are going to get everything in tomorrow. At least maybe they’ll have masks or shoe coverings tomorrow, doubt it.
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