Thursday, March 31, 2005

We Got Our Air Freight

I think we should start each blog with a song (sung to the tune of La Cucaracha):

We got our air freight!
We got our air freight!
And now there's no room to move!
We got our air freight!
We got our air freight!
And all our linens smell like booze!
Okay, that's enough of that. In all seriousness though, I have no idea what we're going to do next week when our ground shipment comes in. Our air freight was four boxes (granted four large boxes, but just four none the less); we have about 90 boxes coming next week sometime. I'm very worried about that delivery. I mean, if four boxes can do this to our front entry, I can't imagine what 90 boxes are going to do to this apartment.

The cat is somewhere in this picture. See if you can find her! Where's Gidget? Coming soon to a bookstore near you!

The delivery was made extra exciting by the fact that none of the delivery guys spoke English. When they first came to the door (45 minutes early!) we stood around for a few minutes with each party trying to determine whether or not these were the droids we were looking for (the "droids" being the proper apartment for them and the proper delivery guys for me). This process was finally brought to a close by Delivery Guy A showing me the delivery slip with the correct name on it.

The rest of the delivery went pretty smoothly. They were amused by Gidget who came running when she heard the front door open, but then promptly vanished when she saw three strange men standing there. I managed to convey where I wanted each box placed through a complex series of pantomimed gestures known amongst we linguists as "pointing." I also got to make use of 75% of my Polish vocabulary by using the words: hello, yes and thank you very much.

I'm currently in the process of destinkifying all of our linens. Considering the amplitude of the smell and the shear volume of the linens we received, I think we'll probably still be working on that next week when the rest of our stinky linens arrive.

-Dave

Posted @ 1:30 PM   5 nice things said about us

5 Comments:

Blogger Anna hypothesized...

Do your sheets really smell like booze?? Sigh ... what did I tell you and Lissa about trying to transport your moonshine operation to Poland? No-one ever listens to me.

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

I personally can't comment, since Dave had already washed them by the time I got home. Our clothes didn't smell like boooze...

Hmm. Do you think Dave is holding out on me??

-Melissa

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

Well, okay. Maybe they didn't smell like booze, but "booze" worked much better with "move" than "funky cardboard box smell" would have.

 
Blogger Anna hypothesized...

I just don't know if I should be relieved or dissapointed.

 
Anonymous Anonymous hypothesized...

Well, if your air freight really did take up too much room, you could always...

Throw it out! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Throw it out! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Throw it out! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Throw it out! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, toss, toss, toss, toss, toss, toss, toss, toss.
Throw it out! Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Just kidding :) You did that before they packed you up - glad your other possessions (minus tools) arrived. Come on now, Dave - you're supposed to be Mr.Fix-It. Find a way to hang those pictures (I hear reinforced steel thumbtacks can work well...)

-Jenn

 

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