Once I was moving from a share house into my own flat. My flatmate had already moved out, so it was just me. The removalist arrived, a few of my friends & I had used him before, his truck looked dodgy, you know, hand painted with house paint & the name of the company written wonkily on the side. He usually turned up with a young guy who spoke no English but he was cheap, fast and always did a good job.
All was going well, just the mattress to get into the truck. Bedroom was on the top floor so they were lowering the mattress over the balcony. He had his mate hold it while he ran downstairs to catch it. Off he went, straight through the plate glass window. F**k! blood & glass everywhere. His hand looked pretty bad so wrapped it up in a tea towel then helped his mate get the mattress down. Decided his hand needed to be seen by a Dr so chucked him in my car, the mate didn't have a licence & took him up to the medical centre. By this time he's looking a little pale, very strange looks when explaining 'no, we're not married, he's my removalist!'. Dr took one look at it & said "Hospital!" She bandaged it properly & off we went. They took him in straight away & the Dr came back to tell me he needed surgery on his hand.
At this point it was clear that he was not going to be able to finish the move!! So I went back home, mate still there. Rang about 20 removalist companies but no love. By this time it's 3pm so I organised a couple of my friends but couldn't find a truck to hire F********K! Also had to arrange for someone to replace the door so that was sorted for the morning.
Removalist calls, he's about to go into surgery but promises he'll be there at 7am with 2 mates to finish the move.
The truck was parked in the middle of the street, with all my life's possessions in it & can't be locked! I went to the hardware store & bought a couple of padlocks, rang the cops to let them know why there was a truck parked in the middle of the street then to the bottlo for a well deserved bottle of wine. By this point I was giggling at the ridiculousness of it all.
Dude turned up at 7 the next morning & it was all done by 10am. Bless him hand bandaged up like you would not believe.
