Armchair Anonymous: Moving
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard and Mrs. Mouse is out of town. This episode is crazy moving stories. And look, they're crazy as promised. Makes you never want to move. Please enjoy moving.
Hard times come and go. Good times take them slow.
Hi, is this Hannah?
Yes, it is. Hi.
How are you?
I'm good. How are you?
Good. Where are you? And what's this cute little miniature door to your left?
Well, I'm currently in upstate New York in a small town called Hamilton. I'm visiting my parents right now.
Do they have a Shetland pony that lives in there?
No.
It's a small door that leads to an attic, but it does look a little creepy, honestly.
Yeah, I'm waiting for a goblin to come out. So you're visiting mom and dad, you grew up there?
Yeah, and now I live in New York City.
Okay, so you have a moving story. Does it involve moving to New York City?
No. No, actually. This story involves moving to Washington, D.C. It takes place in the fall of 2016. I had just graduated college the previous spring.
With a degree in what?
In international relations.
Ooh, okay. Then the D.C. makes a lot of sense.
I'm going to be honest, I did not get a job in any international relations related field. I was living at home back with my parents applying to jobs and my childhood friend, Katie, was also back in our hometown and she had just started working for a film marketing company. And they had another opening. She encouraged me to apply. I got the job. And then by the fall, we both had full-time jobs there. So we decided to relocate to D.C., which is where this company was based out of. So, of course, being recent college graduates, we had no money and also like very few belongings that we needed to move anyway. Yeah. So... We decided, you know, we'll just move ourselves. We're going to rent a U-Haul van. Katie's dad volunteered to help us move down.
So the three of us caravaned down to D.C. Katie was driving in front in her car. And then her dad, Gary, was driving the U-Haul van. And then I was falling behind in my pickup truck. So we make our way down to D.C. The apartment building we were moving into was actually just outside of D.C. in Crystal City, Virginia. It was like one of those big apartment buildings where there's a front desk and a gym, a parking garage.
Sounds very upscale.
For recent college graduates, honestly, it was. It was shocking that we were able to move into this building. So we get down there, and ahead of time, the building had sent us move-in instructions. And they had said, use the service elevator. It's around back. It's right by the entrance to the parking garage. So Katie's in the lead. We're driving around back and she didn't see the garage. Again, we're not talking to each other. We're all separately in our cars. Katie thought that the elevator must be in the garage. So she pulls in and we just followed, which we immediately realized we shouldn't have done that. It was a big mistake because I could immediately see the top of the U-Haul just scraping.
Oh.
Against the ceiling of the parking garage.
Okay. So the dad didn't have the right clearance.
We did not have clearance. Okay. But at this point, it was like we were in too deep. He's basically kind of scraping through the entrance.
He goes all the way.
All the way in. Luckily, my truck cleared it just barely. So I was fine. But immediately, I knew we kind of screwed up on that.
And I'm going to add, if you unload, the U-Haul van's going to get lighter and it's going to get even taller.
Great point. We didn't think about that either. I would say there was very little thinking. It was one of those situations where you knew you had messed up going into it, but then it was too late to back out.
Yeah, you've passed the point of no return.
We pull off to the side, and I jump out. Katie and her dad are already out of their cars. They're freaking out.
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