Whewww! Small disaster averted! Technology saves the day!
Rare that I say that. The proliferation of cell phones and mannerless misuse is a pet peeve.
This morning, however, I awoke to a text.
Cost me 25 cents, like every text save from Verizon, of my bare-bones cheapest-they’ve-got plan.
It’s 25 cents well spent.
“Your Penske rental truck will be ready at 9 a.m. on August 30.”
Wait!!
Sunday’s the 30th! I’m moving tomorrow. Saturday. The 29th!
My original reservation was for Sunday. Then I spoke with Penske about changing it to Saturday. No problem, he’d said.
Did I not make it official?! Was there a miscommunication?! Merely a gentleman’s agreement? Will never know!
Know only that I’ve got 2-3 helpers arriving tomorrow at 11 a.m. People who’ve generously offered their time and muscles for a light, small, local move. I’ll pay them of course with $– and pizza. 🙂
So Tim at the local Penske’s on it as we speak. Trying to arrange, hopefully, the right-sized truck for tomorrow rather than Sunday.
Had that text not appeared on my cell phone, I’d be up a creek 24 hours from now. Standing the Penske counter inside Home Depot, perplexed, steamed or stressed about possibly the lack of a truck. With 2-3 helpers on their way! On the one day they can all help!
Disaster Averted!
A series of phone calls. The 12-footer isn’t in stock for tomorrow at the Penske nearby.
But a 16-footer’s available.
Overkill for sure! My minimal furniture — most of my stuff is boxes — will look piddly in that Monster Truck!
They are, however, wheels that’ll get my things from Point A to B tomorrow. For that, I’m grateful in light of this 11th-hour snafu.
Plus the moving buddies can come as scheduled. Whew.
Thank you courtesy text from Penske!! Without it, who’s to say whether the move mañana woulda-coulda happened!
It kept the wheels of this move rollin’.
{ginormous exhale}
Allelujah, Arizona! 