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Moving everything.

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Moving everything 3 times in 2 years

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I had to move from a dorm to another dorm once and “borrowed” a grocery cart because I had like 12¢ in my checking account and had to just push all my shit in a grocery cart on a major city’s downtown sidewalks on a business day.

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I borrowed two grocery carts and was able to move my heavy and free hide-a-bed couch. Just stacked it on top and a friend and I wheeled it to the new place which wasn’t far thankfully.

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They stole a firearm.

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They packed everything up and left to my new place. I looked and noticed they took my pile of things I was going to take in my own vehicle.

At the new place they had already unloaded everything. Truck was completely empty. It was late, I was tired and stressed out and didn’t think they would know it was a firearm.

Called the sheriff the next morning and asked them to try and get it back. They tried and couldn’t.

Gun was locked and had its own built in lock with a unique key. The manufacturer said they wouldn’t issue a key for it now that it’s reported stolen, and drilling it out would likely be difficult to do without damaging things.

Lesson learned. Basically keep that stuff locked to your body especially when other people are around.

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had its own built in lock with a unique key

Is this a common thing? I’m Aussie so I have no idea about guns.

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Moved several states away. Hired a company to load the truck I rented, and the same company to unload at my destination. A few days before moving day they called and said they couldn’t commit to the reservation and cancelled on me, leaving me to scramble to find a new company to load up. Lucky I do and get to my destination without issue. They show up to unload and are not dressed properly at all. One of the two guys clearly doesn’t want to be there and it’s doing the absolute bare minimum each trip he makes. The other guy slips on the truck ramp and hurts himself. Decides the weather was too dangerous to continue (it had sprinkled a little bit like 30 minutes ago) and cancelled the rest of the move with literally all of my furniture still in the truck. I had to call around frantically on a Sunday morning to see if there was any other company that could come out immediately and finish moving. Thankfully I was able to find one and gave each of them a big tip for saving my ass.

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Being homeless afterwards. This has happened several times so far. Here’s to the next one!

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