Now, after that comment, here’s my feeling.You’re renting a U-Haul truck, just as I will be. You have no friends or social support system, just as I do not. Offer some of the kids you go to school with $40 or $50 bucks and some pizza. Seriously.
My co-workers that are my age are just as uninterested about hauling about furniture as I would be, and I fully understand that. One of my young co-workers is going to help, and his brother, and another co-workers daughters boyfriend. They’re all going to get some money.
I agree with you, absolutely, that professional movers are ridiculously expensive. You don’t need that, anymore than I do. But if it costs you a couple hundred bucks to just get the truck loaded so that you can drive it away to Cleveland, well, that’s well worth it, in my opinion.
Yeesh. A pile on for no fucking reason at all? Make a Pit thread and have nobody come, Frank. Be done with it already. I see nothing wrong with asking for some help to move. It’s an impromptu Dopefest that also involves moving.
I don’t see the big fucking deal. I’d help her move in a second. For the reocord, Frank, if I were in your area and you asked for a hand, I’d help you out. Moving sucks and if someone asks for a hand, there’s usually a good reason.
On edit: she’s even being upfront with it. It’s not that she’s being sneaky about the asking to help with moving either.
Why all the insults? She’s asking for a favor. Either people offer to help or they don’t. It’s not like she’s trying to trick people into moving for her. My lord, I hope next time I need a hand and ask someone for help, they don’t tell me to grow up. :rolleyes:
Miss Squash, please, you need to grow up. % foot whatever you are just isn’t going to cut it anymore. Who else is going to get Miscellaneous Thing off of the Very High place? Hmmm?
The percent sign is supposed to be a “5”. Apparently, an errant finger decided to roost on the Shift key. That finger will face the wrath of The Knife. Don’t worry. Only 3 left.
Holy crap, I sincerely hope people aren’t associating my flipant remarks with this sort of thing. I would gladly help Opal out if I were in the area. I am taking no part in any sort of pile-on.
Yeah, I boggled a bit too, but after searching for your name and discovering that you’ve only been here a few weeks, I think he means that Dopers in general can expect to get responses based on how well they aquit themselves on the board. Not you personally.
And LOUNE, is there some brown acid going around? First Omegaman, now you.
I don’t know many of the people from my school well at all. Seriously, I know them a lot less well than I know the people here. Also, I’m an art student. The people I know from my classes aren’t exactly brawny, muscular dudes. Most of them are 98lb girls, actually. And this magical extra several hundred dollars… where is that coming from, again?
I realize you’re a superior human being to me, because You Move The Right Way, but can you please just butt out on this one? You don’t want to help me move. I got that. Your mission is accomplished. It isn’t your place to “raise me up proper”, you know, and whether you [person who doesn’t know me] think I need to grow up or not is totally irrelevant to any possible situation I can fathom.
Well, at 5’1" and being nearly 26, I guess I won’t be doing any more of that type of growing up. So if I ask for help getting something down from that high shelf, please don’t insult me.
I’m 5’2" and this is exactly why I only date guys in the 6’ range in height. Otherwise I’d have all these high shelves full of god-only-knows-what!
True story from just a few weeks ago: my boyfriend was in town. He went into the kitchen and said “did these used to be potatoes?” I looked up. I had bought a 5lb bag of potatoes on sale, and when I got hope I put them on top of the fridge, because it seemed like a good place at the time. But I couldn’t see them, and promptly forgot they existed. They were fairly grody by that time, so the three of us (boyfriend, son, me) had fun chucking them into the woods from my back deck.
Honestly the only one I know well enough to know she even has a boyfriend, her boyfriend lives in North Carolina. I know this because she is always talking about her trips to visit him on the weekends.
Edited to add: I never really socialized with the people from school, except for two girls. And even then, it’s like a once-a-month thing, if that. I’m 35, the other students are mostly 19-22ish and there just weren’t a whole lot of “oh let’s go hang out!” moments, you know? Especially since I have a kid at home so I can’t go out late.
They aren’t. Given that the question is not “what is the best way to move, please give me all of your patronizing advice” but rather “pretty please can anyone help me on June 30 to load a truck” your answers are just rude and condescending.
