And my staggering ability to create eye catching titles for my blog posts continues!
As the title says, I have happily relocated from Ogden UT back to KY. It came up sudden like, and I honestly still can't believe I am back. One day it came up, followed by a week or so of packing frenzy. We were set to leave on Tuesday, and as plans go, we did better than expected. We did leave on Tuesday, but around 3:30 in the afternoon. Not a great start for a 4 day cross country move, but at least we were actually out the door at all.
The trip was as bad or good as to be expected. We didn't hit any bad weather. Seems we skirted around anything that was a potential. We made bad time the first 2 days, practically flew the third day, made fantastic time on the 4th day only to lose all that great time getting sort of lost in St. Louis, making us stay in Mount Vernon at a not so fantastic hotel. It was all just fine though, and having that extra night in a hotel was nice for being so tired. When we got into town, we found that the car had a dead battery. Cue the "Oh no, we can't get the car off the car dolly until Monday, the truck is due to be turned in on Sunday." The guys at the U Haul place were really nice and did not charge us for the extra day we needed on Monday. Turns out the car battery was dead.
So, Monday came and went after a relay race of hauling everything off the truck, only to have the people at the U Haul place accuse us of hitting their silver Mercedes. (You should see where they parked the damn thing to begin with. Just asking for trouble, if you ask me.) It was a weird feeling to have the wife of the guy who works there come running out to take pics of the side of our car where we scraped the railing in New Mexico. Apparently she had felt it was "so obvious" that she didn't bother to even check out the truck. They claimed we definitely hit them going out that exit (we went out the other one) and were somehow oblivious to the fact that there was:
A) no silver paint on our car. Looking at the damage on their car - missing paint patches, etc. there is NO way a vehicle could cause that much damage and not be wearing the paint to prove it.
B) She measured our car and the silver car with a measuring stick claiming that the damage was the same height AFTER our car was off the tow dolly. (It would have been 6 inches or so higher if the car was on the tow dolly, so those measurements aren't accurate.)
C) Our car had brown dirt all over from NM, and thin long scrapes, most of which wiped off with a little water. Now how does that come from the back end of another car that is missing paint? I don't think so. My regret was that we failed to wipe off our car before taking the truck back. They would have had zero to go on if we had.
You cannot not hear or feel hitting a car. I know people lie and you can't believe anyone, but there is no way we would hit a car and be oblivious to it. They also admitted they did not see us do it. It is really a bad location for a U Haul place. It's a very tiny place with people coming in and out with tow dollies, trailers, etc, so honestly, anyone could have done it. For all they know it was someone after hours using it as a turn around, and they only found it on Monday morning. I suppose we were the final customers on Saturday, so us it had to be. I understand they are desperate to find someone so they can collect the insurance to cover the damage, but I don't exactly appreciate this.
I've been here now over a week. Time has flown, and I am still in the "wow, just think where I was at this time 2 weeks ago!" We just got the internet turned on here, so I am back in business as far as sewing goes. The next few posts will be back to my normal sewing/commission posts. I had to get this one out of the way though first.
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