Time to get shot of some of our book cum video cases. After frantic bidding one chappy bagged one, another bagged 2 and a lady grab the other two. Mrs Fogg duly gets on to let them know where we live since all items are set for local pickup only, low and behold the first muppet of the day lives in London! Go figure, but hey he is going to arrange a courier, methinks it would be cheaper to buy new from that Swedish meatball company.
Second chappy arrives to collect and paid a little more since we had no change (nice ploy Mrs). The lady arrived with child intow, but no-one to help her load them (apparently hubby had to go out so told her he hoped someone would help her at this end, nice), being the chivalrous gent I did my bit (and she was a hotty).
Lastly was the 3m run of wardrobes, where we had such wonderful questions of “how long are the 3m wardrobes”, “you stated that the two outside wardrobes are 50cm, don’t you mean 500cm” and “my girlfriend asked me to get in touch, will you end the auction for £50”. The winner then from the land of Chops duly arrived and in a nice big vehicle. So far so good.
Out pops 2 women, both after a night out on the town and looking like their hair went a few rounds with the Dulux dog and lost. Upstairs we go to see the wardrobe, offered them a drink and pointed out we removed the sliding doors last night to make it a tad easier (almost killing each other in the process trying to reverse follow instructions printed in arabic). So then we ask have you brought any blankets to cover the units in your van, nope just a sleeping bag, oh boy (consider the units have high gloss doors and will be sliding inside a builders van). Ok so you brought tools since you need to dismantle it, err no, we could use a knife if you have one? Oh boy!
Clearly these pair had no idea how to start, evident when one of them tries unbolting the roof and doesn’t expect the sides to collapse.
Cue us two, cannot help ourselves so we start to manage the pair. Unscrew that, lift there, you get the picture.
Magenta and Purple (yes they really did go mad with colour charts) happily chatted and marvelled at our coordination and within 45 mins we had the wardrobes plus the two youngsters loaded and driving off.
Good luck to the pair of them, they were going to pay a man to put it all back together again! Now to rest since I ended up carrying most of it downstairs and loaded said van too, who said chivalry is dead!
Less than 2 weeks to the move and still more boxes to pack, just remember to keep moving so you don’t end up on the auction site.