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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 547560" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The situation; I had a one-time pickup, a lady was moving out of an apartment up on the 3rd floor (with no elevator) and had all her belongings packed up in about 35 big boxes. I can only get 2 of them at a time on my handtruck, so we are talking 17 trips up and down 3 flights of stairs.</p><p> </p><p>I'm about 1/4 of the way thru this ballbuster when a guy shows up, it turns out to be her ex-boyfriend and its his apartment she is moving out of. They start arguing. She starts crying. It is very tense and awkward, and I keep walking in on them every few minutes to load up 2 more boxes and haul them down the damn steps. The conversation is becoming very heated, and I really dont want to be there.</p><p> </p><p>On trip #8 or 9, things change. I walk in on them hugging, and they are talking quietly and the guy is wiping tears off of her cheeks. On trip #10, they are kissing, and I overhear the guy saying "please honey, I want you to stay..."</p><p> </p><p>So now I am facing a dillemna. I dont want to eavesdrop, but I have already spent 20 minutes hauling half of her stuff down those damn stairs and I have a sick feeling that by the time I get it all down she is going to change her mind and I will wind up having to unload it and haul it all back up there. This causes me to slow down and listen in on their conversation, trying to gauge the status of their relationship and whether or not I should haul the rest of the boxes <em>down</em> or start bringing the ones I had already loaded back <em>up</em>.</p><p> </p><p>So I make another trip, whereupon the lady says "hold on a minute, I may want to stay here". Which was fine by me, except that my truck is already half full and its getting late and I need a decision one way or another, so I politely told her that I didnt want to interfere in their personal biz but I really needed to know what they wanted me to do.</p><p> </p><p>She asked me for 5 minutes, and I agreed to that on the condition that, no matter what the decision, her (ex) boyfriend would agree to help me load...or unload...the remaining boxes as needed. They agreed, so I went down and sat in the truck to wait.</p><p> </p><p>They wound up reconciling, and she and the boyfriend both happily came downstairs, arm-in-arm. They had me unload the 20 boxes I already had in the truck and leave them in a pile by the curb for them to haul back up the steps. It actually saved me time over having to lug the remaining 15 boxes down.</p><p> </p><p>It was truly a weird situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 547560, member: 14668"] The situation; I had a one-time pickup, a lady was moving out of an apartment up on the 3rd floor (with no elevator) and had all her belongings packed up in about 35 big boxes. I can only get 2 of them at a time on my handtruck, so we are talking 17 trips up and down 3 flights of stairs. I'm about 1/4 of the way thru this ballbuster when a guy shows up, it turns out to be her ex-boyfriend and its his apartment she is moving out of. They start arguing. She starts crying. It is very tense and awkward, and I keep walking in on them every few minutes to load up 2 more boxes and haul them down the damn steps. The conversation is becoming very heated, and I really dont want to be there. On trip #8 or 9, things change. I walk in on them hugging, and they are talking quietly and the guy is wiping tears off of her cheeks. On trip #10, they are kissing, and I overhear the guy saying "please honey, I want you to stay..." So now I am facing a dillemna. I dont want to eavesdrop, but I have already spent 20 minutes hauling half of her stuff down those damn stairs and I have a sick feeling that by the time I get it all down she is going to change her mind and I will wind up having to unload it and haul it all back up there. This causes me to slow down and listen in on their conversation, trying to gauge the status of their relationship and whether or not I should haul the rest of the boxes [I]down[/I] or start bringing the ones I had already loaded back [I]up[/I]. So I make another trip, whereupon the lady says "hold on a minute, I may want to stay here". Which was fine by me, except that my truck is already half full and its getting late and I need a decision one way or another, so I politely told her that I didnt want to interfere in their personal biz but I really needed to know what they wanted me to do. She asked me for 5 minutes, and I agreed to that on the condition that, no matter what the decision, her (ex) boyfriend would agree to help me load...or unload...the remaining boxes as needed. They agreed, so I went down and sat in the truck to wait. They wound up reconciling, and she and the boyfriend both happily came downstairs, arm-in-arm. They had me unload the 20 boxes I already had in the truck and leave them in a pile by the curb for them to haul back up the steps. It actually saved me time over having to lug the remaining 15 boxes down. It was truly a weird situation. [/QUOTE]
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