There's a Trick to It

Within a four year period, I moved seven times.  The first five were experiences I'd rather forget if I could.  Those first few times, I decided it would be simpler to not hire professional DC movers.  We were able to cram everything into the back of a pickup the first two times, but by the third move it was different, my wife and I had better jobs and we'd started to accumulate more stuff.  The third and fourth moves were "back-throwingly" awful; the fifth was an absolute nightmare.  

After the debacle that was the fifth move, I had an epiphany: On a visit with my grandmother, who was partially paralyzed, she had a new caregiver, a Filipina girl who couldn't have weighed more than 95 pounds.  My grandmother is a big-boned 5'7 woman.  I have a hard time helping her get around, and I'm 6'1 and close to 200 pounds.   I thought, there was no way this girl could do it once, let alone on a regular basis.  To my surprise she did it many times during the visit with no trouble at all.  Finally, I asked her: "How do you do it?"  She smiled and said, "There's a trick to it."  

Shortly after, I moved a sixth time, and this time, on the theory that there must be a trick to it, I hired a DC moving company.  From the get go they impressed me, I practically salivated over their moving equipment it would have been nice to have had that stuff on the first five disasters.  The way they carried stuff around so effortlessly was just as impressive.  I felt less anxiety about my TV being dropped down the stairs than if I’d carried it myself.    

From then on I decided:  I’ll never move without DC movers.