Sunday, July 31, 2005
Carabana Time!
I'm back in Toronto, and will hopefully be here for the next 2 weeks+. New York was fun, and I definitely wouldn't mind doing short trips down there again...but its really very very nice to be back in Toronto!
I got in Friday night, and Saturday was moving day for Laura. She's moving up the street to the condominium(The Polo Club) I was supposed to live in the term I ended up staying in the hotel.
The plan was laid out, and everything was falling nicely into place. She had the elevators booked from 10-12 at her old place, and from 1-3 at the new place, and she had a cube truck rented from 9:30-3:30. She had her parents, and me to help move and Dave(her roomie) had his folks, his brother and a guy from the lab to help him move. Perfect. Well...almost.
Laura and I were up at 7 so that we could head to the St Lawrence Market to grab some bagels and assorted goodies for lunch. We went out into the hallway to grab the elevator down - Laura is on the 19th floor - but strangely the lights on the elevator call buttons weren't working. Weird. We waited a minute or two, and no elevator. So we decided to jump ship and we walked down the 19 floor.
When we got down to the main floor, we asked to concierge what the deal was with the elevators. No shockingly his answer was "they're broken. We think a fuse blew. But we called the repairman at 6 and we think he should be here soon." "You know that we're moving today right?" "Yah, but there're some people that have to move at TEN, so you should be okay!" "Umm...that's US." "Oh."
When we got back from the market at 9 the elevators were still out of commission, but details were coming in about the repairman/contractor...he was a good hour away by car.
By 12 the repairman had shown up, but apparently had forgotten to bring the appropriate fuse with him, so had to drive to etobicoke to get it....and by 2pm the elevators were finally fixed.
Laura gets MAJOR props for not just totally breaking down and panicking when he hadn't even STARTED moving by the time she was supposed to be FINISHED moving. Especially given that the truck company closed at four pm(and locked the gates around the parking lot), so the truck needed to be back by then or else she'd be charged for another day...
Long story short though we were able to move like madmen, and got the truck loaded up by 3, and unloaded at the other place by 3:40, the truck back by 4, and everything up to the new unit by 4:40.
SImon's in town tonight and we're heading out for dinner! Gotta go meet him at the subway.
I got in Friday night, and Saturday was moving day for Laura. She's moving up the street to the condominium(The Polo Club) I was supposed to live in the term I ended up staying in the hotel.
The plan was laid out, and everything was falling nicely into place. She had the elevators booked from 10-12 at her old place, and from 1-3 at the new place, and she had a cube truck rented from 9:30-3:30. She had her parents, and me to help move and Dave(her roomie) had his folks, his brother and a guy from the lab to help him move. Perfect. Well...almost.
Laura and I were up at 7 so that we could head to the St Lawrence Market to grab some bagels and assorted goodies for lunch. We went out into the hallway to grab the elevator down - Laura is on the 19th floor - but strangely the lights on the elevator call buttons weren't working. Weird. We waited a minute or two, and no elevator. So we decided to jump ship and we walked down the 19 floor.
When we got down to the main floor, we asked to concierge what the deal was with the elevators. No shockingly his answer was "they're broken. We think a fuse blew. But we called the repairman at 6 and we think he should be here soon." "You know that we're moving today right?" "Yah, but there're some people that have to move at TEN, so you should be okay!" "Umm...that's US." "Oh."
When we got back from the market at 9 the elevators were still out of commission, but details were coming in about the repairman/contractor...he was a good hour away by car.
By 12 the repairman had shown up, but apparently had forgotten to bring the appropriate fuse with him, so had to drive to etobicoke to get it....and by 2pm the elevators were finally fixed.
Laura gets MAJOR props for not just totally breaking down and panicking when he hadn't even STARTED moving by the time she was supposed to be FINISHED moving. Especially given that the truck company closed at four pm(and locked the gates around the parking lot), so the truck needed to be back by then or else she'd be charged for another day...
Long story short though we were able to move like madmen, and got the truck loaded up by 3, and unloaded at the other place by 3:40, the truck back by 4, and everything up to the new unit by 4:40.
SImon's in town tonight and we're heading out for dinner! Gotta go meet him at the subway.
# posted by Greg @ 4:43 PM 
