MOVING H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS!!!!

WARNING!!! VERY LONG BUT ENTERTAINING!!

Where do I even BEGIN!! Well for starters, if you ever decide to move....dont ever use a company by the name "Nationwide Relocation". THEY SUCK!! Words cant describe how bad this company again.

1 Week Until the Move: our "so called" sales dude by the name of John calls to finalize the item lists to make sure that his "so called" estimate was accurate. Estimated poundage of truck: about 4000lbs.

Wednesday-Day before the Move: No call from the movers to tell us what time they would be there the next day....and yes, they said that they would call.

Thursday-Day of the Move: still no call from movers, we had to call them, said they would be there from 2-5pm. 2:00 no movers, 3:00 no movers, 4:00 no movers, 4:30 WE CALL THE MOVERS. Moves tell us that they wont be there until 6-6:30pm and that the driver will call us.
6:30pm no mover, no call. Mike and Lynsee VERY ANGRY! Company confirms with us that movers will be there next day and that they will call you.

Friday-Second Attempt to Move: Still no call from movers as to what time they are coming, Mike and I had to call yet, again and they tell us that they would be there from 10-2. UNBELIEVABLE!! So 2:00 rolls around and we still have no movers, Lynsee calls our "so called" sales dude John...and yells at John, and John had the guts to tell me that the "sometimes our trucks get DELAYED" NO NO No no no JOHN....2-3 hours is a DELAY not 24 HOURS LATER!!!! Anyways, so then John precedes to tell me that the truck was scheduled to arrive from 12-3....well low and behold, as I am on the phone yelling at the dumb man, the truck FINALLY SHOWS UP!

Well the truck pulls up, and 3 men get out...all of them BOSNIAN! Yes, they are from Bosnia and all they could do was complain about my packing job, th:e heavy boxes, and the stairs that they had to go down to get to the truck. WHAH WHAH WHAH....and not too mention they were pretty LAZY!! They took their sweet time loading up the truck, took about 10 smoke breaks, and it took them 4 hours to load up a short bed 27 foot truck when it should have only taken them 2 hours. Lets put it this way, the managers at the apartment even noticed through the office window how lazy they were. But 4 hours later, they were FINALLY done and on their way.

All in all....at the end of the day, our first attempt to drive to Tennesee had failed, thanks to the movers.

Saturday-Second attempt to get to Tennessee: so the night before we spent the night at Mike's dad's house. Saturday morning A) we got off LATE: 9:30am. and B) the movers have to be paid in Money Order, well we had a Cashier's check from our bank b/c we closed out our account there....well the cashier's check was in our name and we wanted to turn the cashier check in and get the money order with that for the movers. Well on Saturdays, our bank is closed, so we went to Wal-Mart to get a Money Order, well they said that they can only give us up to $500 and then they have to call our bank....well our bank is CLOSED so no-can-do. So we went to another bank to see if they could do it for us....NO-CAN-DO b/c we arent members of their bank. So we decided to "white trash" it and go to one of those Check Masters place to trade in our Cashiers Check for cash....well, you guessed it, NO -CAN - DO!!! Ok its a CASHIERS CHECK PEOPLE!! It is GUARANTEED MONEY!! So after that miserable hour and a half of trying to find someone to cash our stinken CASHIERS CHECK! Our plan had FAILED AGAIN to get to Tennessee and we headed up to Charlotte to mom and dad's where we could clear our minds and come up with a plan to get the payment for the movers since no one would take our CASHIERS CHECK even though it GUARANTEES the money is there! Grrrrr lots and lots of GRRRR.

Sunday-Third attempt to get to Tennessee: So we FINALLY got on our way to Tennessee!! We got off on an early start, things were looking good FINALLY! The movers told us that they would be there Sunday night to unload....seeing that it was Sunday and the Sabbath, and the fact that we would be driving ALL day....we called the movers and told them that we would be to the house until Monday morning, and that they would have to be there Monday morning b/c A)we are not unloading on Sunday and B) we are not unloading in the dark. Thats crap! So the moving company gave us CRAP for it and wanted to charge us an overnight fee if we were going to make them wait. After fighting with them for a bit, they agreed to wait until Monday morning and they would not charge us the fee.

Monday-day movers are to show up: so Monday morning rolls around, and we had NO idea when the movers would be showing up. Yet, again WE had to do the CALLING!! Oh yeah, and by the way, we have called John everyday throughout the weekend and not ONCE had he called us back....I think he was afraid of us, the LOSER!!! So I called the moving company to get a manager on the phone and to complain and I get this JULIA from customer service on the phone....I told Julia that we hadnt heard from the company as to what time they were going to show up. Well JULIA puts me on hold, gets a hold of the dispatcher and then gets back on with me and has the GUTS to tell me this: "Mrs. Turok you are a liar, I just spoke with the dispatch and they told me that they had talked to Michael and told him that they would be there today, and that they didnt even talk to you, so I dont know if your husband just doesnt tell you things or he lies, but this has nothing to do with you b/c Michael is the one who talked to them." WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, what kind of customer service is that??? Who does this lady think she is talking too!!!???????? You dont tell someone that they think your husband is a liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And she didnt even find out what i had asked her!!! I KNOW THEY ARE COMING TODAY....I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TIME, YOU IDIOT!!

As you can tell...I was pissed!! This company I think, almost caused me to have a heart attack b/c they made my blood pressure SKY ROCKET HIGH! Anyhow, I then told this Julia freak that we werent paying them a dime until we talk to a manager....low and behold a manager called us that day. GRRRRR!!

Monday Night-mover finally gets there: notice I put MOVER (single) in the title. Yes, the truck finally shows up that evening and it was the truck and ONE mover. Not only was it ONE mover, it was the ONE Bosnian that didnt speak hardly any ENGLISH and could barely understand it as well. Seriously, could things get any worse!! Oh yes they can....this mover shows up, tells us that the other 2 Bosnians drove the other truck they had back to Phoenix, AZ where they are from! So we were like, Ok mr. Bosnian, where is the paperwork for the truck?? Well low and behold...HE DIDNT HAVE IT!!! So we told him that we are not paying him and he is not taking anything off that truck until we go with him to a SCALE to weigh the truck with him b/c they charge us per pound. He couldnt understand anything we said, so we had to call the dispatch again, they had to fax the paperwork to us....well of course we dont have internet or fax b/c we had JUST MOVED IN!! So we had to send this non-english speaking Bosnian into town to find a fax machine. 3 hours later he showed up back at the house LUCKILY with the paper work. Oh yes, and did I mention our loser sales dude John was 4000 lbs off of his estimate?? Yeah he sucks at life!

So Mr. Bosnian dude shows back up, and then this random guy shows up to help unload the truck. Well you want to know why Mr. Bosnian had to sit there all day with the truck before he unloaded??? Well its b/c the moving company didnt have another guy to come help the Bosnian unload the truck....they had to get on CRAIGSLIST and find someone looking for extra work and money, call him last minute and asked him to come help unload the truck!!! Lucky for their butts the kid was ready to work and he came right away.

FINALLY We are seeing the LIGHT at the end of the TUNNEL!!
So finally about 8 or 9 Monday night...Mr. Bosnian and Craigslist boy were done...and out of our lives forever!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never been so mad, tired, furious, stressed in my entire life!! This was truly a test of Mike and I's marriage!! It was the worst week of our lives, but we made it, we are now settled in our beautiful home in Jackson, Tennessee and are ready to bring the Christmas Spirit back into our home.


A special thanks to my sister Heather for coming up from Mississippi to help us get settled into our new home and helping us WAY out with Addison! Thanks heather!!!!

**sadly my friends this is the SHORT version!!!! I left out many of the details......DEATH TO NATIONWIDE RELOCATION and SIRENA MOVING COMPANY!!!