Beantown Podcast - Moving Hell (06052022 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 5, 2022

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Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show, Quinn. David Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Sunday June 5th June of 2022. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? My name is Quinn Furnace and we are coming to you live from a brand new space a brand new recording studio a whole new apartment And it was a whale of a time just getting here We're gonna be getting into that today a little bit although not too much because I quite frankly don't wish to relieve Relive some of the PTSD and anxiety and all that stuff But what we'll chat about it coming up here. My name is Quinn. I am the key grip. I am the key

Dolly grip. I saw that one in the top gun maverick credits last night, Rachel and I went, I am the second line producer. I don't know what line producing really is, but I am also that here on this fine show. I think this is episode 230, something like that. My name is Quinn. Hello to all of our friends in Pakistan, where we are the 112th ranked comedy podcast over there across the pond and then another pond and take a ride and get one more pond in that's Pakistan.

Hello Hyderabad, hello Karachi, hello Kiberpast, what's happening? How are ya? We saw Top Gun Maverick two last night. I'm not even a Top Gun fan really. Although I appreciate it for its kind of quintessential 80s vibes. I mean, when you think of 80s, movies, you think Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Kenny Loggins, come on, it checks off all the boxes. So we saw it last night, it was solid.

I enjoyed it. It's just a little bit over two hours long. Tom Cruise of course is back. Miles Teller plays Goose's son rooster, Little Val Kilmer, cameo action. Yeah, it was it was a good time. It was fun. I thought it was it was pretty like predictable I thought in terms of how the movie played out and it kind of feels similar to the original plot wise. And you know, it didn't.

I didn't feel like they did an amazing job of like fleshing out the characters or their relationships with each other or their development, which is certainly not the movies about, but I felt like that was for me what could have taken the movie from good to great would have been slightly more compelling characters and relationships between the two of them, but you couldn't really ask for more action wise. And yeah, it was fun. I think it was a fun one to see on the big screen. And hey, if you're a fan of the original top gun, you're definitely going to like this one. We saw that last night, how our jumbo popcorn and diet coke, it's a fun, that's kind of our thing.

We go to the movies every, probably every other month on average, or just frankly anytime there's something out that we really want to see, or in the winter when it's colder out, there's not as many things going on. We saw the green night and theaters back and I have no idea when that was maybe like January or something. December I'm not even I can't even recall exactly when that came out and that wasn't a movie that we were like oh my god got to see this. But it was an 824 film and it, you know, it was cold winter not that much else going on. So we'll see that type of movie. you know, it was cold winter, not that much else going on. So we'll see that type of movie.

Anyways, you're not here to listen to my expert movie reviews, although we did talk a lot of movies year one, year two of the show, just because, especially when I lived in Baltimore, I would go to the movies a lot more. One, that was the era of movie pass for a while. And two, you know, I just lived within Walking Distance to this really cool art theater,

the Charles theater, sounds very prim and proper. So I would go all the time. And I definitely loved that. I did that. I saw a ton of movies, especially during movie pass, I think it was $10 a month. So I would see at least a movie a week on average. And there were, there

were some, you know, there was a couple of golden years, whereas really into the Oscars, and he had some movies out there, like Lady Bird, call me by your name. I'm trying to remember what else was kind of in that era, you know, but like, like the post, there were a lot of great, like Oscar nominated films that I even saw twice, sometimes even three times in theaters, just because I loved them that much. So I'm kind of in a different life stage right now, movies are a little bit more expensive. Like I think the tickets to these two that we saw last night were 32 after taxes and everything. So that's just, I mean, yeah, that's, it's pretty expensive.

So we don't go that frequently anymore, but it's still fun, you know, it's a good time. Yeah, so my name's Quinn, thank you for listening to my show, Hello to all the bean heads out there, and thanks for bearing with me. It's a later recording date in the week this time around. It honestly, I say this sometimes sometimes and today it's especially or particularly true, it really feels like it's been a month since we last checked in with you because so much, I mean, we basically had two weekends worth of stuff now and moving. So there's been a lot going on. We're going to get into the moving story shortly here. Although I don't

want to, I don't, you know, I think one to set some expectations, I want to keep this podcast a little bit shorter because it's, it's Sunday, it's midday, it's like noon. But I've also just kind of drained my social battery for today already. I was out the inaugural Chicago, they call it the Chicago 13.1 because there's already a Chicago half marathon. But this is Bank of America, so the same corporate sponsor as the marathon, so it looks and feels kind of similar.

But this one's kind of neat, they run it out on the west side. So I was out there this morning not running because I just wasn't early in the mood for running quite that far. It did eight yesterday and I was like, this seems like a good length for me. But I was at their supporting the podcast Abby, who I think is going to be coming on the show in one of our next couple episodes here. We actually live down the street from each other now. And I want to get Abby on to talk about Subway because Abby is a big, I won't say Subway

Defender. I'm going to let her speak for herself on her thoughts, but she eats subway a decent amount. So, and I really wanna dig into that. I think that's gonna be interesting because it's fascinating to me. No judgment, it's just really interesting to me. We've been doing some Instagram polls

about a variety of things, but one of the ones we did was subway maybe about a month ago. So I wanted to dig into that a little bit. Anyway, she was running this morning, had a killer time. She was trying to do like a, she was trying to do a 10 minute pace, which for a half marathon comes out to about 2, 2, 10, 2, 15 in that range. And she ended up finishing 157.

So hats off to Abby. It was a perfect, pretty close to perfect running day. It's sunny out right now here in Chicago, but this morning it was very cloudy overcast, but no wind really. It wasn't that humid. It was maybe just north of 60 degrees, and there was even some sprinklage towards the end.

So it was really an ideal day for running. Just when you don't have to think about the climate, and then when you even get a little cool down with the rain, that's really, that's the tops right there. And Chicago, you're always worried about the wind, too, because it can be great. Sometimes it feels really nice. If it's really warm, that wind can be really nice to cool you

down, but other times it's just so oppressive that it really stops you in your tracks. So to not have to worry about that is really nice as well. Anyways, woke up at 5.30 this morning, apologies to Rachel, and took the train out there, started in Garfield Park, went north up to Humboldt, back down through Garfield, down to Douglas, and then finished up in Garfield. So you actually three separate times you were in Garfield Park, but it was it was fun. It's definitely a race. I would do next year Good energy Gailin Rupp was at the awards ceremony just he didn't say anything. He was just standing up there and Yeah, had a had a good time got a couple free beer tickets. I myself did not partake

Although I was certainly tempted to. I was still nursing. I made some coffee this morning, put it in the thermos, went down there, rode the red line at 6 a.m. like a champ, get out to the west side. So it was fun. Anyways, the point of that story is that a lot of cheating, a lot of chatting, a lot of small talk, which is great, but I'm just kind of like, you know, I'm not one of those people who can just talk and talk and talk for, you know, hours and just keep going. So I need to chill out here, but I knew I had to get a little podcast going for you guys. There's so much to share, so much has happened.

And I wish I could have done this on Friday, but I was in Zoom conferences all day. It was the worst. But yeah, last weekend was a lot of fun. Thanks to Brother of the podcast, Jack and Nicole and some other friends were coming out from the burbs to hang out a great beer festival put on by Dovetail and Begyle. A lot of fun, live music, good beer, good vibes, great weather, beautiful weather. Got a little little tanage going on, TAN and AGE, and actually did that, went home, and then went

back out later that night with Rachel and some of her friends and I got pretty toasted, not gonna lie. I had just been kind of drinking all day and never drinking insane amount of anything, but just pretty consistent throughout the day. And then obviously the killer was mixing things. I mean, I had wine, I had beer, I had whiskey coke, I think. No, whiskey diet Pepsi. I think we were talking about the other last show.

And then some more beer, some wine at Rachel's house. It was just, you know, something for everyone. So that was a good time. And we went home pretty shortly after that. I think we might have gone to one bar or something. I don't really recall. But some of the friends were up to like 4 AM. I couldn't handle that. Welcome to the next morning, a little hungover. Rachel, I went't really recall. But some of their friends were actually like 4am. I couldn't handle that.

Welcome to the next morning, a little hungover. Rachel, I went to a patio on Sunday afternoon. We were just looking for like, kill some time, hang out, have some fun. We got, it was a beautiful day. It was, you know, it was really hot last weekend, but you know, we're like, on the patio, so you're in the shade.

Got some beers, some craft beer, man. They were like, not particularly cold, somewhat loop warm. And I was already feeling a little hungover. And that's just not a good situation to be in. You're on a patio. It's a little toasty. All you want is a nice cool refreshing crisp beer. And we had just like not warm, but not cold beers. That was, that was a little rough.

Anyways, went to the Belmont Sheffield Music Fest after at night. And that was a crazy party, man. A lot of people packed in there like sardines. And then the only reason I mentioned this, we went to a bar afterwards. And I wasn't going to order it, but a friend had ordered a drink I've never heard of before.

Vodka water. Not vodka soda, not vodka tonic, vodka water. So yeah, they just pour a little vodka into a cup and then some tap water into the cup and some ice cubes and that's a vodka water. It sounds about as not only boring but kind of gross as or it tastes about as as boring and gross as it is as it sounds. Yeah it's just kind of like drinking water that kind of tastes like vodka and I don't really get it.

I would you know there were some limes I think but they were the problem with the limes. They were just thrown in. So I couldn't, you know, you go into me on the side or, you know, wedged onto the lip of the glass, I can squirt it in, I can squeeze it a little bit. But if it's just thrown in, it's just kind of like, you know, you're not really getting much out of it. So anyways, that was a Sunday night. And then of course Monday was Memorial Day, another hot day.

But Monday, I was, because I was moving out on Tuesday. So Mondays when I really went into, because I didn't do a lot of packing on Saturday and Sunday, but I didn't want to overpack or pack too early so that I was going to, you know, miss out on something that I really needed. And if you're wondering what's going to be happening on the rest of the show, I think I'm just going to tell my moving story and then we're going to be out. I didn't record a write on Q for today's show, although I'd love to get in one for next time.

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The SAMHSA and Q2U series, when God speaks, He uses the SAMHSA. Okay, ready to go. So Monday was Memorial Day. And so that's a perfect dedicated, intentional day for packing, because what else are you gonna do? I mean, there's stuff going on, but it's kinda just like, yeah. People for the most part are just kinda like,

outside enjoying themselves at their own leisure, grilling, that sort of thing. It's not like that many specific events happening where it's like, oh, you really wanna go out and do this or see that. So, that's Monday. I planned ahead and said, you know what, let's do the majority of our packing this day

Which I did everything went great And take so I already give you context and just helps set the scene I had Tuesday and Wednesday off of work Tuesday being May 31st Wednesday being June 1st the way my or leases were set up my current my former Which at the time was my current lease on diversity parkway, and did May 31st, I had asked my landlord, knowing that I was going to have the situation coming up, hey, can I stay till June 1st per chance, PRCH A and C, E. She said no, I was like, okay, well, that's well within your right. Speaking of rights, you don't have the right to show my apartment with less than 48 hours, but separate conversation.

I didn't actually tell her that at the time. And let's just use this opportunity on the first podcast of June to just bury that relationship and never dwell on it again. We might mention, but I don't want it dwell. I'm always down to mention, but rarely do I dwell. That was, for the most part, my time living in diversity, I don't think we're ever going to do like a full on retrospect. We don't need to.

But for the most part, it was pretty chill. But just some of the things, especially towards the end, it just, it kind of went from like zero to crazy really fast. The whole time I was there, if the weather was warm and I've had an ant problem, two things, one, they would come in from outside the front door basically. I still remember, it was like the first or second week I had moved in there, I noticed the ant problem. So I not only sprayed The crap out of my place and outside, you know perimeter of the building I also bought these liquid ant baits and I still remember I placed one right by the front door inside

And I'd never use an ant bait before I never had ant issues So I put it in there and just the amount of ants of that thing attracted, they were around it like a giant powwow circle. They were going in, they were eating. It was just disgusting. And that's the thing, like you know that it's working if it's that popular, but man, it was really hard to just like, because my place was so small and the couch where I spent the majority of my time was just like right by the front door. So you're just like always seeing stuff

if bugs are coming in and it was just, man, that was really tough to watch. Anyways, generally, the ant problems during the winter at all, but they definitely came back this spring. So same thing, sprayed it down. I didn't need to put out any traps this time. Let the new people worry about that. The other place where ants came in was behind the bathroom mirror to

basically explain what it's like my, you know, bathroom, regular like wall above the sink, but instead of like a mirror that you would like hang on the wall, I think there was like a giant hole in the mirror was like put in there because there were ants coming out of there. It's not like you have a medicine cabin or something. That's built into the wall, and attached to the wall. This, the mirror basically was the wall. And so there were various entry points that I actually,

by the time I moved out, I probably had three or four of the access points where I had tracked ants because I would see them or the bathroom countertop. And so I would just like stand there sometimes for 10, 15 minutes observing like where are they going? You know, where are they going back into? And so I kind of from doing that over the months, I was able to determine where they were coming out of. And so I would actually like soak a piece of toilet paper or tissue paper basically,

in like chlorox or bleach or straight up raid spray and then like plug the hole with that. And I had, there's multiple spots. And actually, I didn't forget I intentionally left them in there when I left, because you can't really notice them. And I'm like, I think I'm trying to be a good person here. Honestly, just trying to save the new tenants from having ants calling over their bathroom when you walk in the middle of the night because that's not pleasant.

So that, I mean, ants was one problem. Just other things with the apartment because it was right on the ground floor, literally the wall behind me where I sat in the living room was a big bay window. And if you had those blinds open, people walk past all the time to get from the back parking kind of spaces to their apartments,

so they can just see right into your apartment, see your basically your whole place. Or the other window was in the bedroom, which was in the back facing this parking lot. And I don't think I ever opened those windows in my life, or those blinds in my life, because it's like people come in and out of there all the time. So that was a bummer. I was just talking to friend of the podcast, John Paul Pantowski about this. I never really opened my windows in there because it's a lot of noise being around in diversity and then also just like people walking past,

you can hear their full conversations, they can hear anything you're saying. So it's just kind of way too noisy to do that. The heater in that place, the furnace was so loud. It would come on for like two minute increments and then be off for five, come back on for two. But man, I was constantly when you'd be watching TV or something, you like have it at a normal volume, the heater, the furnace comes on, you turn the volume up by like threefold, then

the heater goes off, furnace goes off and all of a sudden you're like, oh my god, this is so loud, the volume of the TV. So you're bringing it back down and it's just a vicious cycle from November until April, basically. That was a total bummer. And just because of the blind singer revisit that, it was so dark in that apartment all the time. That's probably the biggest improvement.

Honestly, all things considered is just so much natural light. I got windows facing north here. I got windows facing south. It's just, it's really nice to have windows that you can see out of and can open and not be overwhelmed by noise or have people looking into your apartment. So again, I said, oh, and then just the relationship with my landlord, she was like a late 80,

like very old late 80s Greek lady. Who could talk and talk and talk, very unique character. She was kind to me. I didn't have any like personally, she's with her, but you know, we talked a little bit already on the show about like When she started showing the apartment people would come in at all hours People came in while I was showering one time that sucked the maintenance guy was very nice But like really could have worked on his communication skills one time. This is pretty early on living there last year

They shut off the hot water without any notice. And I came back from a run and I was going out with some friends that night. And I needed a shower. And it was, I mean, I could have taken a cold shower. I opted to just wait it out. You know, cold showers aren't the best. So the shower in there was moldy when I got there. So I can never completely like demold it. They really just needed a new setup basically. The water got warm but never super hot, which is such a first world problem, but I hated that. And oh, the smoke smell.

I mean, I did a hell of a job with it, but just never fully quite got it out. And I'm pretty sure, I don't know if we talked about this on the show ever, but the guys who were living in my apartment before me then moved upstairs. I figured that out through some like mail and packaging and that sort of thing. So I think that's all I really need to say, but it was just, yeah, not great. A lot of other things that don't bear repeating.

Anyways, let's tell this story so I can finish up here and take a shower, eat a banana, drink some surge white cloth. Excuse me. He should call it splurge and they should make them twice as wide. That's, you got to have two hands to hold it. That's what I would be all about. Get me on that marketing team.

Okay, so it's, so it's, it's, it's, uh, to finish setting the scene here, I had to be out of my apartment by 31st. The newly starts June 1st. I had asked the new people, as a big property management company, like, hey, just, you know, courtesy, like, do you think there's a chance to get in on a 31st? I had asked them, like, when we sign the lease, they're like, maybe we won't know until late, man. Like, okay, that's your call, whatever.

And so, I just, like, continued to ask, you know, do you know, do you know? And eventually we got to Tuesday, May 31st, and I was continuing because I hadn't received re-hidden, received any move in information, no, you know, access instructions, nothing. And I'm just like, God, I hope that you guys didn't forget about me. So I'm kind of like badgering them with emails because I haven't heard anything like we had never signed a lease in the first place. And so that's part of the stress. But you know, couldn't get in technically to Wednesday is the start of our lease. But we had been told eventually got told, I don't remember this a couple days before like,

yeah, it's looking like you were able to get on the 31st. So you should be in good shape. I was like, oh, cool. Because I had booked the movers, telling them like, hey, I'm going to need overnight storage from Tuesday to Wednesday. But at the end of the day, it's like, hey, if I don't have to pay that extra fee, I'm sure you guys would be happy to not store my shit. Oh, I never even mentioned.

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Okay. So I think that's pretty much the scene. Oh, and I had booked movers,vers, not like the biggest name movers, but you know, people who have like a great Facebook page, good reviews, all that stuff, friendly faces, family owned company. So I booked them like, I don't know, late April. So plenty of time to spare.

They were good at communicating their own or J, five stars, gets my endorsement, very communicative over email, all that stuff. So in advance, this is like, yeah, we got you set up for a move Tuesday afternoon, overnight storage will unload at Wednesday morning, like fantastic. Okay, so the scene has been thoroughly set. So it's Tuesday. I wake up pretty much all my stuff is packed up.

I just got the couch because I just had to sleep somewhere. And go for a run Tuesday morning, nice and easy, get back shower, and you know, get some lunch from McDonald's. It's like 12-1 at this point, you know, off from work. All I'm really doing is kind of just like being on my laptop and waiting for the magic to happen. So it gets to be about, I don't know, 2, 2, 30. And I still haven't received anything from the new place about moving in. I had been, so I'm emailing them, being like, hey, place about moving in. I had been, so I'm emailing them, being like, hey, Lee starts in 10 hours, whatever,

like just if you can give me an update, like one, what are, where might, like do I have to go somewhere to pick up keys? Like when I moved into my Rogers Park apartment, I had to go go someplace on Damon, not close to my current, not close to where that apartment was, to get keys. And like, I got to plan this out.

Like, do I need keys? I mean, to go get them, like, what's the situation? They're like, it'll be in a lock box, but we don't have the access code for you yet. And yeah, you should be like, things are looking good. You should, I think we think you'll be able to get in today, but we'll let you know. And I was like, okay, well,

so at that point, I'm feeling like better about it, because I'm like, hey, my movers are gonna be able to just bring my stuff right to the apartment and it'll be a simple move. So I've been told by the moving company, I think, morning of three to five, somewhere in that window. So I'm like, okay, this is a little bit later than I would have liked, but really not a big deal, honestly,

because what was gonna happen if I was to use the overnight storage option, was that once they move all that stuff out, then I'm homeless until I get this new access code, which could be that day, it could be Wednesday, the first, and Rachel ended up being out in the suburbs and not being in Chicago. So it was like, I was thinking like, I guess I'll just like post up at a Starbucks or something, like Mary Ann was bar, something.

You know, it's not a big deal, but I'm just thinking like, okay, what am I gonna do? So, it gets to three, it gets to four, and at that point, I get a phone call from the head of the mover company, Jay. Again, nice guy, and five star endorsement. I want to just preempt everything that's about to happen by saying full recommendation to this moving company.

They were going through hell as much as I was. Just basically let you know as we get into this story what the main problem was here on this day. The moving company I chose is a smaller operation but totally a legit operation. They don't own their own trucks. They use you all. It's just part of their business model. That was a problem. That was a whole problem with all of this. I could go into the exact play-by-play detail on all of this stuff. Frankly, I'm not, I'm just not going to because it's a very, it could be a two-hour then this happened and that happens sort of thing. That's not that interesting

and to be honest, I really don't want to relive it, which I mentioned at the outset here. So let me just give you the bear outline of what went on. Essentially, I got a call from the movers saying, we're delayed. They had a truck earlier in the day, they had to give it back to you haul. They were told by you haul, they could pick up another truck from a different location. Yada, y yada yada. Basically what happened throughout this entire day was I would call or get a call from the owner of the company Jay who's doing a move of his own, a five bedroom

out in Aurora. So he was physically trying to move people also communicating with me, which I really appreciate him for. My movers were originally three guys ended up being one guy and then he pulled another guy so there were two guys when they finally did get to my apartment. But I was communicating a little bit with him,

Gabe, who was also fantastic, five star man. It's like six o'clock, seven o'clock, something like that. Still no word from the property company. This is after five o'clock now, mind you. I'd even spoken with our new property manager on the phone at like four o'clock because I was just like, hey, you know,

it was like four or 15. I was like, I know, you know, end of the business day, 45 minutes here. Like, I just wanna make sure that you didn't forget about me. Because at this point, I'm still thinking, hey, my movers calm. We can get to the place real quick. It's an easy. It's a pretty quick move. So I'm thinking, hey, I know you said I'd be able to get in today, you know, as of this morning. Like just checking in. I wanted to make sure that you didn't forget about me.

And he's like, oh, no, they're still working. And I was like, OK, I wonder what they're doing. But oh well, oh well. So it gets to be like six o'clock, let's say. And granted, I have at this point, and this was premature, but it's what happened. I packed up my internet, router, my modem, all that suspect way. I'm literally what's in my apartment is

my, all my boxes, my phone, my wallet, and the couch. So I still do have a place to sit, which is good. It's like six o'clock. At this point, I'm feeling a little stressed, but I got a call from the mover saying, hey, you all sending us up to Scokie, to get the truck up there.

I'm like, I was just ready to be out, like ready to go. I've been waiting here for like three hours at this point. Just pretty much all packed know, all packed up, pretty much ready, like, you know, can't use my laptop anymore because I packed up the router and stuff. Because, you know, I'm under the impression

I'm literally looking out the back, I'd give them their directions for like, best place to access my apartment through the alley, back slab, that sort of thing. So I'm thinking like, okay, like, they could be here in 30 seconds. So get a call, they're up in Skokie. They're like, yeah, we've been, you know, this is like 6.37 at this point.

They're like, yeah, we've been on hold with you all trying to get code. Because it's like after hours pick up. So there's some, you know, they probably, they must have like a fleet of trucks up there and then a drop box. It's like, you get the code, you can grab a key, you can take a truck, you go. So they go, okay, thanks for letting me know. there and then a drop box. It's like, you get the code, you can grab a key, you can take a truck, you go. So I go, okay, thanks for letting me know. Like, just, you know, when you have an ETA, like, text me, call me whatever,

tell me this to the guy, physically drive in the truck. Seven o'clock, seven thirty. I think around eight ish, I would have to go back and look at the time, it's not that important, is when I got an email from the property manager with the lock box code, location lock box. I'm like, okay, thank God we can at least do that. But now I'm thinking, I'm talking to the moving,

the head of the moving company, J on the phone. And he's like, yeah, these guys, these guys have had a super long day already. We're gonna get you taken care of, which I was very skeptical about. But I think we just got a stick, or he never told me this, but he was like, yeah, they've had a really long day,

so doing a full move tonight, which would be tough. So I was like, all right, you know what, take my 150, let's just do the overnight storage, it's fine, because I was tired too, and gone for a run that morning. I had McDonald's at like noon and Spoiler alert. That's that's all I ended up eating that day. So Because it's like when else are you gonna eat can't like leave your apartment?

I think they're gonna be here in like 20 minutes So it's like eight o'clock At this point, I'm feeling a little bit better because at I know like any time I want I can get into the new place Which was a big stress honestly It made me not maybe doesn't seem that bad now in retrospect, but it was very stressful In fact, I had I had emailed the property guys at like 7 p.m. or something being like hey like our lease starts in like five hours, any updates on the keys, you know, it's after hours, I'm thinking like they just forgot about me. And the email

will back eventually, before I, you know, they let me know the, you know, key location, being like, actually, your lease starts at noon. That's all I said in the email, which was really helpful to someone having an anxiety attack. You know. So because the other thing, not to try not to go crazy in the weeds here, but it's worth bearing, because it all just adds into my anxiety attack I had for like 12 straight hours,

was I had asked the, I told the movers like, yeah, pick up, Tuesday afternoon, move in Wednesday morning, and all of a sudden it's like, hey, if these new property people want to really be a total bitch, they can like not send me the access stuff until noon on Wednesday, all of a sudden, which they didn't know about before they let me know. And then I would have like, what if the movers are here at the new place at 9 AM on Wednesday

morning and all of a sudden it's like, oh, yeah, we can't actually get in. So that was another wrinkle. That was something where I had to, before I got the access stuff, access code, lockbox information, whatever. I had this moment of panic among a million moments of panic on Tuesday where I had to contact the head of the moving company, Jay, and be like, hey, just a heads up. I just learned this. moving company, Jay, and be like, hey, just a heads up, I just learned this. Like, is it possible that we could unload starting at noon? But I also told them like, hey, it would be great if we could get in, if we could just do this one move on Tuesday and not have to worry about overnight storage. So I felt bad because I was getting conflicting information and having to

relay that. I made more phone calls on Tuesday than maybe ever in my life combined up to this point, which is an exaggeration, but it's probably like, I don't know, 30 or 40 phone calls in going out going on Tuesday alone. It was terrible. At this point, I'm still talking to, it's like 8,830. So I'm talking to the guy actually moving the truck.

He's like, yeah, still waiting for the access code. I'm getting, I'm starting to go into full blown, just lose it mode here. I texted friends of the podcast, Haley Benson, who has a car, John Pope and Dowsky as a car. Not that they could really do anything about, you know, like a couch or anything. And this, so this was actually maybe more like 730. This was before I had the access information for the new place.

So I'm thinking at that point, like, shit, my lease about to run out. I don't know if people are going to, and I had told my landlord, like, I'll be here. I'll be out of here Tuesday afternoon. I told her on Monday, cause I was going to be out of here, and I told the main team this guy Tuesday afternoon. And so all of a sudden, at that point, I'm thinking like, I don't have a place to go,

cause I don't have the access instructions yet for this new place, and I'm about to run out of time on this old place, and like, what am I gonna do with all this stuff? I was literally at that point trying to cobble together a couple of people with cars so that I could like run boxes over to Rachel's who doesn't have a ton of space in her apartment with a couple of roommates.

But I'm thinking like, I don't know where else to go. I don't have elsewhere to put this. My other thing I was sinking was like, maybe I should try to get a U-Haul and then haul a bunch of stuff to Rachel's parents house like in their garage. There were just a million different things going on none of them were good options And the crazy to just sidebar this ever so briefly the crazy thing with the U-Haul one

I was nervous I wasn't actually going to be able to get a U-Haul, even if it showed they had them online. Because if my guys who are professional movers are getting sent to all these different locations to pick up a truck and they can't even get it yet, then I don't think some rando, like me is going to be able to get one. The other here is a crazy thing.

You know, 31st in the first, like busiest moving time of the year, the only U-Hauls they had available that you could immediately get were either like 12 or 12 30 AM, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, at this place that's kind of down by like, Gouciland almost. And you could have them for six hours before you had to be bringing a bat because presumably people were going to pick them up at 7 a.m. to start moving on June 1st.

And I was like, so theoretically, if my movers don't come and my lease ends and I don't have access to this new place, or even if I do, I guess I'm getting a U-Haul to pack my dresser, my bookshelf, the couch coffee table, all that stuff in there, and either bring it down to Rachel's parents' house, or, and then who knows when I could get it from there into the new place, or the other thing is, I could bring it to the new place if I have access instructions, but Rachel can't help me get the couch up the stairs, for example. And so I've in hats off to him because he said begrudgingly that he would be able to help with it. Not even begrudgingly, he was willing. John Paul Pindowski, I'm texting like, hey, the nuclear option here is that I try to get this truck,

which who knows if I would have even been able to, from this random ass place at midnight on a Tuesday night, on a work night, and like, what's the chance you could help me, like, make a run from Lincoln Park to Lakeview and like, get these heavy items up the stairs. And then I would have to like, do everything that I could do, and then get this truck back, refuel it, and get it back to its spot at 6am. And it's just like, it sounds crazy, in retrospect, for a time that was my best option. So back to reality here, these are all the things

that are happening going through my head. I actually did make a truck reservation for the U-Haul. Who knows if it was actually there? I have no idea. for the U-Haul, who knows if it was actually there. I have no idea. So, the next kind of development in the moving story is they call me and they're like, and we had had many conversations about other things,

the guy Jay, the head of the company, it's like let me call one of my guys, he's an author as U-Haul dealer, let me see if he has anything. I don't think he ended up having anything. So Gabe had been driving a truck all day, or I think he had loaded earlier that day. I don't know. It was a huge, like, the biggest you haul truck size they have. It was loaded with a ton of furniture. I don't think it was, like, put together Tetris Wise, or like, super efficiently, because they had all that space. And so Gabe was like,

you know what, let me try to rearrange all this stuff, but I'm not sure if there's gonna be enough space for your stuff, I have no idea. And I'm thinking at this point, like, you know what, if you think you can do it and all my stuff's not gonna fit, I will start throwing stuff in the dumpster. We'll throw stuff overboard,

like losing the couch, for example'll throw stuff overboard, like losing, like the couch, for example, which would be a bummer, cause we'd have to get another couch. But like, that's worth it to me, if we can just get out of here. So the, so he was like, okay, well, let me see what I can do.

Do, but it didn't, he, the way he was talking, he made it sound not promising at all. And I was just like, this isn't going to happen. It's not going to work. So the only other sidebar conversation worth mentioning here was also crazy. I'd been texting my landlord, calling my landlord since like five, just to try to get a beat for like,

are people coming in tomorrow? Did someone even sign the lease? Like, what's happening here? I finally get in touch with her at like nine PM, which is when I was in the middle of full freak out mode. And my lease is ending in like three hours. And she's in Florida, living it up per her words. Again, it's like a late 80s Greek woman immigrant. And I was like, Hey, I really hate to like Bug you with this and ask you this, but I'm wondering like I gave her my situation

I was like what so is someone coming in one is someone coming out like it's someone gonna knock on the door at midnight like Ask me why I'm still here Is someone coming in tomorrow morning, like did someone sign the lease? And it's like, yeah, I don't really know what's going on. So call the apartment source, which is a company here in Chicago that isn't, it's not a property management company,

it's a company that like people will post their apartments on. And like that's the people I used to actually see the diversity apartment and sign it eventually, whatever. So she gives me their number and I'm like, wait, Kate, isn't this like their business number? It's eight o'clock, nine o'clock at night.

That's not gonna really do me any good, is it? And she's like, well, I don't know what else. And I was like, okay. So, call them, as you might expect eight o'clock on a Tuesday, it's a Boyz-mail like obviously I Get back in touch with cage like well call my son Michael great Greek name and

Well, you have to you have to text him first and ask him to call you because he won't He won't respond to calls, which was interesting. So a text Michael, lay out the whole situation, he eventually calls me back. And I'm like, do you know if someone's coming in tomorrow and he's like, I'm not sure. I was just like, Oh, okay. You know, I don't, I like, what, what's with like the key coordination, at the end of the day, I didn't give my key to anyone who just left in the apartment when I left.

I don't know if the new people got a key, who they got it from, this whole thing was just so like, no one seemed to know except the apartment source, I guess, who were obviously not open. So I had some really just bizarre wild conversations with my 88 year old Greek landlord and her son who owns a Philly cheese steak restaurant here in Chicago Philly's best.

So it's maybe 9, 9, 30 at this point. And here's the other thing, at this point, I'm like, I was pretty sure I wasn't being scammed or anything by these movers. I think they were just having a really bad day with you all. But at the end of the day, I was like, at a certain point, you guys are probably gonna say, cause this is what happened to me when I moved to Baltimore.

My movers were doing a different job, and they just kind of ran out of time and then went to bed basically and said, well, come in the morning. Yada, yada, yada, that's a separate story. So that I'm thinking this is going to happen with these guys. It's going to get so late that they're just going to be like, this, yeah, we obviously can't do this today. And I'm thinking if that happens, then like, what?

That's when I call up the brigade of people with cars, I guess, and try to get me to at least funnel some stuff to Rachel's, I don't know. I don't know what I would do with the count. So it's, man, just the worst possible day. All's well, that ends well. Basically at 9.45, 10, I finally get the call. Hey, we were able to rearrange the stuff.

We got a limited space back here, but we're coming. We're coming in hot. When that truck showed up, I don't know if I've ever felt happier in my life because I had been in like anxiety attack. I was already anxious. Like I had a really hard time sleeping on Monday night, on the couch going into Tuesday,

because I was just nervous about the day. So I was just like triple that anxiety level. It was the worst. They got here, they loaded up. Nice guys. I had the access code by that stuff, and I was like, you know, let's meet at 10.30 whatever in the morning.

So I went to Rachel's, thank you, Rachel, for housing me while I was homeless. Although I could have slept, I could have slept in this new place just on the hardwood floor, I guess. It's not that exciting. It's not good for your back. So I slept at Rachel's, woke up early,

she had to go to work. I had Wednesday off again, came up here, checked out the new place, scoped it out, when he got some bagels, one bagel, coffee, and the new guys came in, they moved stuff in, tipped them generously. I'd never tipped someone $50 before, but that's what Gabe got. And again, all is well, that ends well. Spent, spent, you know, two hours on the phone with Xfinity, but you know what, here's the best part of this whole story.

The last two, it's not the best part. It's a part of the whole story. The last two Chicago apartments I've moved into, I had been told previously, yeah, Xfinity is what you want to use. So when I got into those apartments, both in Router's Park and then on Diversity Parkway, plugged in the router, set it for RCN. And so at both times I had to wait like a week for the Comcast person to come out, switch

the cables, all that fun stuff. This time, I'm actually, we're using an Xfinity like modem right now because the apartment has a free partnership. So I'm not paying anything for internet now, which is clutch. But I plug in the modem, you know, they're like, do the self installing the app, the apps telling me like, sorry, we ran into an issue, call this number. Shout out to Melissa at Xfinity, Xfinity gets the worst customer service route. And I'm not going to say whether it's earned or unearned, but Melissa, you were clutch. I spoke with her for like half an hour.

And then she didn't have the act. She knew exactly what the issue was, but she didn't have the access, access to solve the issue. So one of her buddies or supervisors or someone called me back. She was really fun. She was like singing songs on the phone while we were like waiting. She's like, come on, baby, work, work, get on out. She's just, you know, a very fun person. And we got it, we got to figure it out.

And they were able to cancel my old service, which was clutch because I thought that was going to be like a whole separate other process. So we got the internet going. There's a lot of things we still got to do. I'm not even fully unpacked here. And probably won't be for a while knowing me. Hey, I went my entire. It's been fun. I unpacked for the most part one box that I never even unpacked from diversity. The whole year I lived there and never unpacked it. I got the tire blanket out of there and I have my Duncan Keith floss holder from out of there from a black oxy

and Rachel I went to and my mother Mary statue featured prominently next to the TV currently right where she belongs. Those babies that been in the box for a year they hadn't seen the light of the day since Rogers Park and they are out and about now. So still got some unpacking to do. There's a lot of things to figure out. I haven't had a roommate since I was in grad school. So just like learning how to live with a person, relearning that is going to be a little bit of an adventure. But that guys, that was my moving story. I know I said it was not

going to get into the weeds, give you a short or a shorter show today. But once I got going, I couldn't stop. That wasn't even the whole thing. There are other things that happen, small things, not entertaining things, but similarly stressful things that happened. It was a nightmare. And I was telling this to my friend Jake this morning, we were out at the race. I think the worst part about all this for me and there were really bad parts,

but it's like I wouldn't necessarily have done anything differently. I mean, it's not like, oh God, yeah, I fucked that up. Like, boy, that was a bad choice. It wasn't the moving company. It wasn't my strategy of like overnight storage. It was, I think I played the cards that I was dealt. The only other thing that I could do would be to like,

sign a lease for a month overlap. But this lease right now is already overlapping with Rachel's for two months. So I'm paying the full lease for these two months for this place, which is, you know, $800 more a month than my previous place. So I think that's the toughest thing is like, it's not, it's not like, okay, yeah, well, I learned my lesson,

like, we're not going to do it at this time. It's like, no, I really wouldn't have changed anything. I think I, I think I did the best thing I could have done. And it's just that, you still went through that hell. So it's over. It over. I mean, I feel like I need another white cloth surge just after telling that story again. But I'm really excited. I hope that friends and family, this is selfish of me, but that want to hear the full moving story because I haven't really talked to anyone in the last couple days. And I missed family chat this morning, my apologies. I hope that they just listen to the show

so that I don't have to tell it again. And that's just me tired of talking. But you're probably tired of listening, guys. 54 minutes, thanks so much for tuning in. It's always a fun moving story here in the Bean Tom podcast. This is, let's see our first, second, third moving story we've had. And I guess three and a half because we had our farewell, the farewell and season one, which was the place

I was in, uh, Rogers Park when I was in grad school. And that was like the last week and before my roommates moved out of that place, which is a year after I moved out. Anyways, I want to think everyone for listening next week is going to be I moved out. Anyways, I want to thank everyone for listening. Next week is going to be something fun, something light, something shorter, and we definitely want to get Hashtag for the podcast, Abby Wittsack, on just never been on the show. This is your five from college. We definitely got to get her to Paul Superfan. She's going to bring good energy, good insight, good dry humor. It's gonna be fun. We'll be talking some way. So that's coming up later on this summer. For sure, we'll have another

radon cue segment, all that stuff, but it's just, uh, man, it's, uh, it's wild. It last week felt like a month. Uh, It's a Sunday afternoon. I am going to shower up and I'm going to go enjoy myself. I'm going to do something, get out of the apartment, even though I should be here and unpacking. It's okay. I just want to go do something fun. Thanks everyone for listening. One final time.

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