My Worst Accident with Uhaul Truck Rentals - (Out of Three)

Despite the appalling nature of this account, many seem to find this an amusing story that only gets worse as it goes.

Read on for an account of my most recent accident (yes, there have been several) involving a Uhaul rental vehicle for a chuckle, a precaution, or to help put something horrible that happened to you during a move in perspective. And yes, I realize this story will be just one testimonial of Uhaul Rental Trucks Company at its most classic. However, before using that fact as reassurance when choosing to take the Do It Yourself Uhaul Truck Rental risk for your own moving adventures, I encourage you to also do a little online investigation. With little effort, you will likely be inundated with anti-Uhaul warnings, complaints and full website testimonials that support my not so lonely theory that my giant Uhaul catastrophes (there have been three total) are a bit more than just my own incidents of misfortune.

Our moving day began bright and early on a Saturday morning with a trip to the Roxbury Do It Yourself Uhaul Truck Rental retail location. It was my best friend Jessica and I, moving out of our separate units in a high rise apartment building right in the midst of downtown Boston and into a two bedroom a few blocks away that we were to share. As most find a car impractical in this city, neither Jessica nor I owned a car, so we were forced to visit the Uhaul location via two busses in order to pick up our 12 foot Uhaul rental.

If you are familiar with Boston or for some reason keep up with the crime news for this New England area, the name Roxbury might sound familiar to you. That is because Roxbury is not the safest place to hang around. In fact, despite the rumors that it has been cleaned up a bit over the years, there are some areas of Roxbury that the Boston cabs refuse to drive to out of fear for their safety and/or getting ripped off. For some reason, Roxbury seemed to be the closest Uhaul location with available trucks when we called to reserve ours, so we had no other choice but to take the excursion out there. Fortunately, for us, it was early morning when we ventured to the shady area. It also did not seem entirely scary, just a bit shoddy and rundown and the Uhaul location employees were far less than competent.

When we showed up at the Uhaul location right on time for our 8:00am reservation, the scene inside the store was all too familiar. As a regular customer

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