Finally the Van is Delivered

26th August
A day to remember, We had a big garage sale at our friends place two doors up as we were not allowed to do this in the unit complex. Jo and Darren are great mates and well appreciated. Hells bells, where does all that stuff come from. We had accumulated vast quantities of all sorts of junk and treasures etc. I had a brand new Sunlight genny 2800 watts for sale and one gent said he would take it off my hands for $50. Gees!! That was good of him NOT. we ended up having two guys arguing who was there first to buy it.
We had to be out of our unit by Sunday the 24th so the new tenants could move in, but as luck had it the van would not be here until the 26th.
We moved every thing into a small villa in the park. Luckily the unit had two bedrooms which we filled up with boxes. We finally got a ring from the towing company "Handy Tow" to say the van was at the depot. Bugger no electric brakes fitted to veh yet so explained that the van was to be delivered to site. Yeah! Right, for another $100 we can do that. It cost us $2650 to get the van up from Brisbane but they would not deliver it another 20 klms to the van park. Great service you think?, “Handy Tow” it ain’t! Why is it that every body wants to screw you? I would have sung their praises to all and sundry if they had offered a little bit of service and delivered the van. Ah! Well. Not to worry its here.
New day dawning and the big shift is on whilst Fae is at work, I think she got the better of this!! I loaded up the old Toyota and did several loads to the van. All the big stuff, side board, camphor wood box, etc all went up on the hand cart. You should have seen the look of disbelief on the faces of some of the residents’. One gent could not contain himself and asked if the wife was in the box!!!! It put a smile on my face that one. After all had been put in place Fae and I went out for dinner. According to our next door neighbour we had a constant parade of people going out of their way to walk their dog or just walking by straining to see what the hell was going on.
Had to laugh as it continued when we were at home later. We took a couple of days but Fae finally put the finishing touches on things and pronounced we were home at last. I took a couple of days off work to get the annex up and to set up the van, my boss was not happy and rang me to ask what the hell was going on. I explained that I could have just rang in sick but tried to tell the truth. (next time I will lie) I explained that I was casual and that my wife came above all else, hi then tried to explain that I was “permanent casual!!!” and needed to apply for leave, now that was funny.