From a Driver

One of my favorite moving stories…it taught me you have to ask just the right question to get all the info you need from certain people. We were packing and loading 18,000 going from RI to the Marshall islands in the south Pacific. Basic center hall colonial. Husband and wife are both FBI agents…they have a boy and a girl 8-10…. House is over full with new furniture and bags of new stuff everywhere. Realtor beat us there by 2 minutes and they’re trying to get the kids off to school. Can’t even start the walkthrough…super chaotic. We’re just standing by in the front hall as they rustle up the kids to catch the bus. The mom yells up the stairs to the little boy “Did you brush your teeth?” …..the kids replies “yes”. The father…a real country boy from Texas calls him to the head of the stairs and says in a super Texas twang..”Did you brush your teeth TODAY?” The boy looks at his feet and says’ No sir” . The father tells him to go do it. He turns to us and says shaking his head.… “That boy’s gonna make a great lawyer someday.”

 

The salesman probably asked “Do you have boxes?” .They said “sure we do…nice big white ones”. What he should have asked was “Do you have boxes…and do those boxes have bottoms and tops?”. That little tid-bit of knowledge would have changed everything. BTW… That 1/100,000 of an inch of bubble wrap scotched taped over the top of the cartons could be the most useless thing I’ve ever seen on a PBO. Give it a couple of months and I’ll  watch for the claim on that one. Cha-ching.