The Horror...The Horror

To quote Comic Book Guy...Worst Move EVER! Our household goods were picked up last Wednesday and we had planned to make a leisurely trip up North since the Personal Property Office has informed us the earliest delivery date would be 25 August. Lots of time...No problem right? WRONG! The mover informed us that they would be in Connecticut and ready to unload between 0830-0900 the very next morning and if we couldn't there then they would put our stuff into storage. My Bride did not want our stuff in storage as the number of things that mysteriously vanish is directly proportional to how long the movers have custody of the material. My Bride step up and took one for the team. She and "Entropy" left on a 12 hour drive at about 1930 that evening while myself, "Chaos" and "Mayhem" saw to the cleaning and turn over of our beloved home. At about 0900 the next morning my Bride was calling, furious that the moving truck had not arrived but the unloading team had been on the front porch when she arrived at 0730 that morning. By 1500 that afternoon and numerous conversation between myself, the Norfolk Outbound PPO, the Groton Inbound PPO, and the Shipping Company I was able to let my Bride know that the truck would not be arriving because it was involved in an accident just the far side of Newport News. She took it pretty well, she was a little loopy cuz she still had not been to sleep. After the company finally came clean as to the reason they couldn't deliver as planned they assured me that even though the truck was no longer drivable that the load had been inspected and it was just fine. The plan was to send another truck to the accident site and transfer the load. They would then deliver our goods bright and early Monday the 23rd of August. The did indeed deliver this morning and here I sit typing this on the floor of a room filled with almost box shaped boxes. Why on the floor you ask?...Well that is because my home office furniture is smashed into about 1200 little wooden shards just like a full third of all my furniture. The first thing the driver said when he walked up was "Man, just so you know, your stuffed is really messed up." Apparently, the wreck was more serious than the company admitted to. The team that transferred the load from the wrecked truck said it the front of the truck was destroyed as was the rear two thirds of the cargo box. All my children's beds were destroyed, all their chests of drawers are now kindling. My computer furniture, my metal Texas Star, my Mort Kunstler and Don Troiani War of Northern Aggression prints, our Breakfast Nook, and most ever other piece of furniture we used to own. About the only things that survived relatively unscathed were my Brides and my Chest of drawers and the dining room table. What really hits me where I live is that my New Braunfels Smoker has been bent out of shape and my riding lawn mower is now shaped like a J with the engine pointing at the ground! My dump cart that I just got for my birthday and only used once looks like and pissed off giant crumpled it. I take my meat very seriously and the loss of my smoker really cuts me to the quick but what really stings is now that my lawn tractor is totaled I will have to give up my plans to mow nekkid with only my slouch hat. First time we have had a secluded enough yard and I really had my heart set on that nekkid mowing. We have not opened the boxes yet but I am sure there is more damage, after all, aren't boxes supposed to be square? Mine aren't. The certainties that face us now are easily predictable:

1. It will take the government at least 2 to 6 months to process our damage claim.
2. They will significantly depreciate any settlement
3. I will have to go into debt replacing the critical pieces of furniture. (can't keep the kids on the air mattress forever....or can I?)
4. No nekkid mowing for me and that really sucks

Overall, WORST MOVE EVER!

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD