Don't Use Uhaul

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My wife and I were moving from Chicago to Madison, WI a couple of years ago. We lived in a third floor apartment. This simple fact was probably the saving grace of our whole move because we didn't want to haul all our stuff down three flights of stairs ourselves. In addition to reserving our UHaul truck by putting down a deposit with a credit card, we reserved a local moving company to send a few movers over to help us load it. It was Friday night. We were supposed to move on Saturday. I came home from having a few farewell drinks with some workmates to a cryptic message on the machine. "This is X from UHaul. I just wanted to let you know that your truck didn't come in today. It should be in sometime tomorrow. Call me if you have any questions." Of course by now they were closed. My heart sank. My wife had already started work in Madison. As I was listening to the message, she was en route back to Chicago to help with the move. She needed to be back at the new job on Monday. We had planned to pick up the truck the next morning. The movers were showing up at 9 am to start loading. The woman who was supposed to move into the apartment we were leaving had already called and asked when she could start bringing things over. In short, we had many, many reasons why waiting around for a truck for a few days just wasn't going to work for us. I told her the news and we discussed our options. We didn't have very many...

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