DRIVE TRAIN FELL OUT

See, cars seem particularly unhealthy when they’re involved in helping somebody else move. Not that they break down on purpose, or that there is any foul play involved on the part of their owners, the Moving Day Deities strike down an unusually high number of automobiles when a U-Haul gets involved.

Take Chad’s truck for instance. We’ve written about it on our blogs before: just search for DRIVE TRAIN FELL OUT. Seriously, Chad, Alan and I in his big, tough, manly 4x4 at a light on the way to move Alan’s mum. The light goes green, the pedal goes down, the drive train goes to…. the worst shaking and shrieking of metal I’ve ever heard.

So Chad had to leave us to accompany his towed-away truck. I still think he got the good deal that day.

But this move went really pretty well. I tried hard to have everything well organized: enough boxes, have the truck ready when my folks got there, minimize the amount of brute labor they’d have to do, while maximizing the mule-work of myself and my young buddies.

Yay….