by Stonehenge

Created on: August 28, 2007

The following Moving Day Horror Stories are recounted only to be useful in helping others avoid great losses. This is not meant to be entertaining. Please, do not let the following horrible stories become waste in the ashcan of Bekins, Mayflower and Allied Van Lines. Instead, take heed, because these stories are real:

The Dallas-based family's personal property was adequately packed and professionally loaded into a highway bound moving truck. The driver of the truck was from Dallas, too, and all of the Davidsons had met him and liked him. None of this affected the teenager who pulled out from the highway's shoulder after changing a flat tire. The teenager wasn't thinking about anything in Dallas; he was thinking about his girlfriend who was giving birth 37 miles north of the crash site, in Denton. Both the teenager and the truck driver were sorry about the insured loss of all that property strewn along the highway. Although there were no injuries, the Davidsons from Dallas were horrified.

In an unrelated moving-day horror, the Thompson family rented a 26' bobtail truck into which they planned to pack all of their furniture and other personal property. However, before Mr. Davidson had an opportunity to eat more than half of a blueberry donut, he backed the truck into the red brick overhang which provided shade for the Lexus he was trying to avoid hitting. Mr. Thompson hit the house instead of the car. Fortunately, the Thompsons from Tucson had discussed the matter of moving-day damage to the home with their insurance provider and the damage to the brick overhang was covered. Unfortunately, they had waived the insurance coverage on the rental truck because Mr. Thompson thought driving a moving van would be just as easy as driving his wife's Suburban.

There was also the time when the Paulsen family asked their neighbor's sons to help them load their newest sofa from the Kreiss Collection into a waiting rented moving truck. Young Joey and Jimmy were happy to oblige because the Paulsens offered them lunch. After spending ten minutes trying to figure a way to maneuver the oversized and overstuffed sleeper sofa out the front door without stepping on the freshly replaced tiles on the porch, Joey and Jimmy decided to go out the back door, around the pool and out the side gate which opens onto the front yard on the side. Joey only has nine fingers, including his two thumbs, and he lost his grip on the fabric of the sofa, letting it go into the pool. The Paulsens from

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