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What a mess I'm in...

Posted February 24, 2000 6:29 PM.

You can wander on for days with everything seeming to be running smoothly before suddenly realising exactly what a mess you're in. Today I decided to book my van to take all my stuff up to my parents. Except I pretty quickly discovered that I wasn't going to be able to find a van for a reasonable amount of money. Everywhere is booked and the only place I could find a free van wanted to charge me £50 a day (minimum of two days) plus tax and plus an additional £150 if I wanted to drop it off at their depot in Norfolk. A little simple arithmetic makes that £250 - which is around $400. I don't think THAT is going to happen.

So I contact my parents and my mother agrees to lend me her car for the day, which is pretty cool of her, but it means that I have to be in Norfolk first thing on Saturday morning in order to drive down to London to collect everything. Which means that I have to leave tomorrow straight after work (otherwise I won't get home before they go to bed). Which means that all the packing has to be done tonight. All of it. From scratch.

This is turning into the week of hell.

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