Where Have I Been?

[Tycho]

Why do you think we're so taciturn?

[Gemnoc]

Canadiens set aside one day a year to have a movement?  Ouch!

Lol ^_^

Actually, this is only in the Quebec province. And as any Canadian should know, we are a distinct province! (fellow canadians, please take this in good humor heh!) :GRN>

Somehow, about 90% of all the leases here start and end on July First, which happen to be a National Holiday. And many tenants get a new lease somewhere else and move every year. The trick is, you get to the new place with your truck and cannot move in because the previous tenant is waiting himself for the tenant at the other place to leave, and so on and so on. Completely crazy!!!

[Tycho]

When I was growing up in Montreal 40 years ago, "Moving Day" used to be May 1.  I don't know when they changed it (or why).  But as Gemnoc says, this is strictly a Quebec-only phenomenon.

It's funny about the trucks being unable to load in because they're waiting for the next guy to move out.  You can imagine following the chain down to the end and finding a couple of moving men cursing and sweating while they try to get a piano down a winding staircase....

[ronmac]

Or a couple who decided to have their pizza and beer before they load up....

[bucky1]

Canadiens set aside one day a year to have a movement?  Ouch!

We would call that Thanksgiving Day!

[ducktrapper]

Living in Montreal in the mid '70's I experienced two July 1st moves with relative ease but I heard lots of stories. I've moved three times in the last four years. This time we hired movers. A truck, three guys moved two houses into one in 8 hours. A little pricey but cheaper than chiro, percs and back surgery in the long run. My hands are so sore from moving boxes though that playing has been put on the back burner for a couple weeks. Arthritis and moving boxes don't mix that well. Gawd I hope she doesn't kick me out once she really gets to know me.  I'll live in the gargage. I ain't moving again!     

[Denis]

Gawd I hope she doesn't kick me out once she really gets to know me.  I'll live in the gargage. I ain't moving again!     

Hindsight is 20/20... :WNK>

[Tycho]

Ducktrapper, I've been going through exactly the same thing.  In fact, it's still going on for me because I got busy at work and couldn't get my old place completely packed up before the movers came.  They got most of it, but I've had to go back to my old place every day to finish up the loose ends.  Meanwhile, we're nowhere near being unpacked in the new place.

Hopefully it's been a bit cooler in T-Bay than it is in Toronto.

But the dog loves the cool tile floor in the new front hall, so at least someone's happy.

[ducktrapper]

Tycho - Yikes! That's precisley my situation! In fact, my car is full of junk as we speak. Kath is not very impressed with my organizational skills. She doesn't realize the immensity of the task. She actually throws things out. My collection of tobacco cans, broken amps, chords and things like that just don't make any sense to her.  :GRN>

[Tycho]

It's brutal, isn't it?  In the last week, out of necessity, I've suddenly developed a steely resoluteness about getting rid of things, which I probably should have done five years ago....

I have a huge box full of cables, patch cords, jacks, etc., and I don't even know what they were originally supposed to be connected to.

[ducktrapper]

Oh yeah! And a box full of AC adaptors with nothing to adapt, cords with no jacks, knobs with nothing to attach to, old effects that are only good for bookends. Crikey, I even have more shoes than her! Hey I sent two truckloads of 'real junk' to the dump, what the heck does she want from me?   :GRN>

[Tycho]

Ah yes, the box of orphan wall-warts.  I know it well.

I actually have a set of computer speakers, and I have no idea what computer they came with.

[ducktrapper]

Just one?  ^_^