I love my neighbors...

...really I DO!! Had the idiots next door not left the pile of garbage at our dumpster, Jess would not have had the opportunity to get to know Eric better (who lives in front of our building) as they both shoveled the garbage back into the dumpster, and Eric may not have offered the "if you guys ever need anything, just knock" favor. Why is this story important? The couch I am sitting on is our wedding gift to ourselves courtesy of Sofa Company. If you can't tell, it is MASSIVE. The side to my right is 10ft long and if you have ever been to our apartment, you can understand how impossible this would be to get in the conventional way... through the front door. We had crossed our fingers in hopes that at least the other side of the couch would fit and the movers could do that part and we would deal with getting the long side in. Needless to say, neither side went in and we called on our good friend Rick (who had just helped us that morning to move our old couches into his and Robin's apartment) to come over and help. "Help" meant, heave the couch up the front of the rental Uhaul truck we got, onto the roof of the rental truck, let Rachel hold the couch upright as it balanced on the edge of our railing (which is 20ft up from the ground), then have Rick and Jess pull it into the apartment through the balcony sliding glass doors. SUCCESS! That worked for the first one. The second one was way too heavy for me to push from the bottom as they pulled it through the slider. We tried, but no luck. In comes the Eric favor. We needed him... he came with bells on! Jess and I heaved from the bottom (which was the top of the truck) and Eric and Rick pulled from the top. I do not recommend anyone do this! If our mothers would have seen this, they would have all stopped breathing. To make a long story short, we now have our couches, Rick and Robin have their couches, we have a better friendship with our neighbor and spending $14.00 for the Uhaul insurance was the best $14.00 we ever spent!