Wednesday (about 45 miles)
It’s a gray day but we are both jittery with excitement. We go to breakfast to get fuel for the day ahead and I call Janelee the Realtor to make plans. Even though I spoke her yesterday when she told me “Oh I can meet you at the house, you can sign the lease and I’ll give you the keys”, suddenly she was tied up until
Then we headed to a Bob Evans (TGF is so happy to be back in the land of all these chain restaurants I can't even tell you!) to get food where a woman had three toddlers who took turns starting the next round of caterwauling. I thought I was going to lose my mind. TGF had to grab my hand to stop me from getting up to say something to the woman. “I wasn’t going to yell at her, clearly the woman needs help and I was going to tell her that.” Somehow that didn’t fly. When I am tired, low blood sugar or PMS I am very sensitive to sounds, that day I was all three so it was a real struggle.
Finally we hit the road, it is a gray and drizzly day. As we hit
As we first enter the St Anne’s Hill area I am heartened, happy even – it really is cute, a bit edgy but livable. Then we turn up
Still hopeful we round up the truck, Ellie meets us at the house but by then we have made a decision to walk away from the deal. The realtor had been less than clear, withheld information, and the neighborhood would take far to long to turn around to be a good investment. We arrange for the movers, who were fortunately late, to meet us a storage facility near Ellie’s workplace. It was still raining and when we all are in the same place it becomes clear that the car dolly is not working properly so we cannot detach it, which of course we need to do in order to unload the truck into the last storage unit Mike (aka the Bear) had that was large enough for our vast quantity of stuff. Once again a call is made to Budg*t, who sends a tow out (I now have a special place in my heart for tow workers) after another hour or more wait. The car dolly definitely had problems and really I wish we could dispute the charge for the damn thing (our second one if you remember) but that would require energy.
In the meantime we converse with the movers, Justin (aka Boomhauer), John, and Matt. Boomhauer, like the character on King of the Hill takes some time to understand. Most people you can listen in a manner that is akin to skimming while reading, but our Boomhauer guy requires actually listening with intent until you get used to the speech patten. All three had varying levels of tattoos with Boomhauer having the most body art including a very bad neck tattoo of the number “13” surrounded by flames. You know the kind of flames, like the ones you see on cars only bad colour job. TGF and Ellie had taken the cats and some our belongings to the next motel in our tour while I had an enlightening if tongue biting conversation.
Finally the car dolly is off, the Purple Beast towed to the doctor’s office, and the rain stopped just in time for them to unload everything while I was wearing was soaked to the bone. I actually stopped to wring out the bottoms of my pants which were now about two inches longer than normal so I was consistently stepping on them. My cheap birks were wet and clammy, my blood sugar was crashing and I still needed to drive the Behemoth albeit a lesser one now that the dolly was gone back to the Mot*l 6. Eventually we finally we able to take off and went off to the Golden Corral for dinner. TGF was very happy. Did I mention that her palate has been heavily influenced by her southern roots and years in Ohio?
Thus my first day as a resident of
6 comments:
whew! looking forward to hearing about the next phase of your adventure, too. and hopefully you are no longer soggy nor sugar-deprived.
OhMyGod...did you say Bob Evans and Golden Corral???? Seriously? I'm southern and my palate can't handle the badness that is Golden Corral - although Bob Evans has some might fine breakfast.
I'm so sorry for all of the various issues you two have been facing - I'm certainly hoping there is a rainbow at the end of this storm!
wahhh - I am leaving in the morning and will have to wait until I get back on Sunday to hear how this tale ends.
I'm looking forward to a happy, safe, homey ending.
Did you rip the realtor a new one? I mean, jaysus! That is really crappy, I hope you are telling the story from somewhere warm and homey. With better food.
I didn't realize that you had blogged any of this! I've enjoyed reading over your saga and descriptions of the journey. Sorry the house didn't work out; that neighborhood sounds creepy.
Hope to hear some great news from you two soon!
Welcome to Ohio. I wish that I could tell you that it gets better. The best that I can offer is that you'll probably get used to it. (I'm Andi, btw, I saw your profile on the local knitting group on Ravelry and thought that I'd say hi.)
I will promise you that our little hamlet is not without its charms and that there are a few unique benefits to this part of the world. It just takes a while to see them for the absence of more obvious attractions.
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