Moving checklist

Do you not tip the waiter at expensive restaurants?

 

Good non-sequitur.

I also don't tip garbage collectors, dry cleaners, couriers, cleaning ladies or streetcar drivers.

 

Cheap-O.

 

You will never actually be moved.

Everytime you think you're finished, you'll go back in your apartment and find one more goddamn box that you'd forgotten about.

 

I do tip Tony, the guy who cuts my hair. $5.00 on a $30.00 cut.
Does that vindicate me?

 

I go to the Hair Cuttery. $16 cut and shampoo, and I make it an even $20. So yeah, you're cool.

Seriously, you gotta tip the movers. Having several friends who used to do that, trust me when I say it's an ass-load of work. Hard work. They're doing you a tremendous service. It's worth $20 or so, depending on the size of your move.

 

Removed the Brook Jacoby poster from your bedroom wall?

 

You make it sound like they're doing me a favour.

Of course it's hard work. So's humping around cartons if you're a truck driver. I doubt they get tips.

 

Sure they're doing you a favor. Otherwise, you'd move yourself. I've moved myself halfway across the country -- twice -- and I know that the next time I move, I'm hiring a moving company. And I will tip them generously.

May your nice furniture be scratched all to hell!

 

Is there a box spring?

 

No, they'd be doing me a favour if they moved me for nothing.

If I pay a company close to two grand to move me, it's called "fee for services rendered" It's nothing ressembling a favour.

Of course I could have hired Two Guys with A Truck, paid them $500.00 and crossed my fingers.

Anyway, I'll wait till Huggy reports back on the Canadian side of this argument.

 

The last movers I hired --- which I damn well hope are indeed the last movers I will ever hire --- took apart my waterbed and then reconstructed it at the new place . . . upside down (or backward, as I cannot describe what they were trying to do). Then the "lead" mover asks for a tip for his two co-workers.

"Here's $20. Promise never to come back and I'll give you $40."