Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Representin' for the 2-aught-six, y'all!
Thank ghod THAT's over.
The plan was, we pick up the truck saturday morning, finish loading by mid-afternoon, I head back to Seattle and we unload sunday morning. That, of course, went like all the best-laid plans of mice.
Friday afternoon, we're waiting for them to call to tell me where and when to pick up the truck. Finally I call them and get told they'll call saturday morning by 9. Well, shit, that's still early enough to get a good start.
Then saturday morning comes, 9 o'clock rolls around, and no call. So I call them again and get told that they're just opening, and needed time to inspect the returned trucks. So why was I told I would be called at 9? "Oh," says the perky skank on the other end, "whoever told you that must have been new."
So I call back later. And later. And finally around 11 they tell me there's a truck waiting for me in Port Moody. Picture driving from south Seattle to Lynnwood without taking the freeway. That's about the distance from Richmond to Port Moody.
We had booked a 17-footer. The truck they gave us was 24 feet. The good news is they didn't charge us for the upgrade. The bad news is we needed it. I don't know if you know this, but me and Shellswick have a lot of crap.
More later.
Copyright 2004 Rich Bowen
The plan was, we pick up the truck saturday morning, finish loading by mid-afternoon, I head back to Seattle and we unload sunday morning. That, of course, went like all the best-laid plans of mice.
Friday afternoon, we're waiting for them to call to tell me where and when to pick up the truck. Finally I call them and get told they'll call saturday morning by 9. Well, shit, that's still early enough to get a good start.
Then saturday morning comes, 9 o'clock rolls around, and no call. So I call them again and get told that they're just opening, and needed time to inspect the returned trucks. So why was I told I would be called at 9? "Oh," says the perky skank on the other end, "whoever told you that must have been new."
So I call back later. And later. And finally around 11 they tell me there's a truck waiting for me in Port Moody. Picture driving from south Seattle to Lynnwood without taking the freeway. That's about the distance from Richmond to Port Moody.
We had booked a 17-footer. The truck they gave us was 24 feet. The good news is they didn't charge us for the upgrade. The bad news is we needed it. I don't know if you know this, but me and Shellswick have a lot of crap.
More later.
Copyright 2004 Rich Bowen
