The Best $60 We Ever Spent

Unloading is never fun, but it’s even less fun with heat indexes above 100-degrees. The hallways and stairways of our apartment complex aren’t air conditioned. We broke into a sweat just walking up to the apartment. By the time we started unloading the truck, however, the hallways were feeling more than comfortable.

The humidity was brutal outside and the back of the moving van was particularly harsh. Although we had a couple of carts to help us move items in, the process was still exhausting. Most of the items fit nicely into the elevator, but our couch was too large. We managed to get the couch to the narrow stairwell, but getting it up the stairway was an entirely different matter. We managed to get the couch wedged into the stairwell before even reaching the first flight. Hers had to squat the couch from the top while I pried it loose from the bottom. In the end, we paid a contractor in the complex $60 to help us get the couch upstairs.

We got most of the truck unloaded the first day, but our mattresses were against the front of the truck, so we slept on the floor the first night (not that it mattered, we could’ve slept anywhere).

By the time we were done unpacking the next day, we were battered and bruised. Hers had bruises on her upper arms and I had bruises on my left elbow and both knees. Luckily, we healed before our first day of class.