One more night

*As told by Shannon

Shannon and his dad loaded up the last of the boxes this morning and hit the road around 10:30am. They got there about 11:45am and the rental office didn’t have the lease agreement ready! They made some lame excuse that the person who was supposed to have this ready never did it and a new person just started working there... blah blah blah.

Anyway, in order to fill out the lease agreement, she had to put the paper in the TYPEWRITER. Hello!? Have you heard of a computer? You fill out the form on the computer and just print. I guess half way through her typing, another lady told her to just handwrite it out. While that’s happening, 3 (of the 4) ladies in the office leave for lunch and say they “will be back in a minute.” They were gone for an hour and a half, even though they KNEW my husband was waiting. How rude is that? Apparently this is how they do it in the SOUTH! And they wonder why they never get any work done!

Meanwhile, the one girl helping my husband was apologetic and wondering where they were because she was getting hungry. She couldn’t do the walk-through because she was the only one in the office. I am just confused as to why all 3 of them had to leave, knowing my husband was going to do the walkthrough.

On the way back from their lunch, the manager told my husband that our place wasn’t quite done yet and there were last minute maintenance to finish up! My husband called them this morning asking if it was ready and they told him yes! I do admit, it was nice of the manager to make the effort to see if the place was ready for us. But that was the only nice thing they did for him. Shannon did say that all the staff was really nice and apologetic.

So he finally gets the keys at 2pm and they were done unloading the truck by 3:30pm. They didn’t get home until a little after 5pm. Basically, they could have gotten home around 2:30/3pm had EVERYTHING been ready! They took the truck back tonight and got home around 6:30pm.

Since it’s been a long day, we are going to move in tomorrow. We have to be there before noon since the cable guy will be there at that time.