Y'all know I've been wanting to get another TV for my guest room/office but I just didn't want to buy one new. I wanted to get one secondhand (or even thirdhand!) for frugality reasons and to make a better choice environmentally. I was talking about it at work to Michelle, our nurse who cooks and bakes the most fabulous things and knits and roasts her own coffee beans and has a hippie heart like mine that longs for San Francisco, and she said she had one just stored in a closet in her apartment and after she talked with her hubby, told me I could have it!
So I went after work today to pick it up.
Y'all. That thing is 80 pounds (I googled it!) of awkward, bulky tank. It's a 25-inch Sansui and it's in excellent condition. I was worried that it wouldn't be by the time I got it home!! We had to carry it down the stairs of her apartment, rolling it end over end, robot-walking it side to side, anything we could think of to get it to my car. It was so hot, our hands were sweaty and it kept slipping. I thought I was going to DIE right there.
It wouldn't go in my trunk but it went into the back seat, along with Michelle underneath it. She slipped out the other door, we said our goodbyes and I left, not knowing how in THE hell I was going to get it out of my car and into my house without busting it wide open.
I thought about it all the way home and when I got home, I pushed my office chair out to the car, pulled and tugged, prayed, tugged and pulled, pushed my hair out of my eyes, prayed, tugged some more, got half of it into the chair, huffed and puffed, pulled some more until it was all in the chair, the chair's hydraulics collapsed under its weight and the TV almost fell out onto the driveway screen first, ohmygod, I grabbed it just in time, threw my weight onto it to hold it in place and started slowly moving toward the front door. I got it in the house, as far as just inside the front door. But it was IN!!! And it was COOOOOOOOOL in here. Then I collapsed!! For just a minute. I pulled and dragged and rolled it until I got it into the room it was going in and had it hooked up to my Directv cables in less than five minutes.
And now I'm watching Caddyshack! :)
Thanks, Michelle!! I'm sure we'll never forget this afternoon! Ha!!
So I went after work today to pick it up.
Y'all. That thing is 80 pounds (I googled it!) of awkward, bulky tank. It's a 25-inch Sansui and it's in excellent condition. I was worried that it wouldn't be by the time I got it home!! We had to carry it down the stairs of her apartment, rolling it end over end, robot-walking it side to side, anything we could think of to get it to my car. It was so hot, our hands were sweaty and it kept slipping. I thought I was going to DIE right there.
It wouldn't go in my trunk but it went into the back seat, along with Michelle underneath it. She slipped out the other door, we said our goodbyes and I left, not knowing how in THE hell I was going to get it out of my car and into my house without busting it wide open.
I thought about it all the way home and when I got home, I pushed my office chair out to the car, pulled and tugged, prayed, tugged and pulled, pushed my hair out of my eyes, prayed, tugged some more, got half of it into the chair, huffed and puffed, pulled some more until it was all in the chair, the chair's hydraulics collapsed under its weight and the TV almost fell out onto the driveway screen first, ohmygod, I grabbed it just in time, threw my weight onto it to hold it in place and started slowly moving toward the front door. I got it in the house, as far as just inside the front door. But it was IN!!! And it was COOOOOOOOOL in here. Then I collapsed!! For just a minute. I pulled and dragged and rolled it until I got it into the room it was going in and had it hooked up to my Directv cables in less than five minutes.
And now I'm watching Caddyshack! :)
Thanks, Michelle!! I'm sure we'll never forget this afternoon! Ha!!
UGH!!!!!! Hope your back survives your adventure....lol
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Good Lawd girl, you gonna kill yourself! It looks like a good t.v.,no worse off for the removal fromMichelle's house to yours.That was a smart idea to use the rolling chair. Love you.
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