Oh man, not just that they came, but so many things had to go right that did.
The city of Toronto doesn't really have a permiting process for moving containers. I mean, they do, but everything is centered around the assumption that the only people who will be putting such containers on the street will be, like, contractors doing renovations and demolitions, not tenants who are moving. So for instance the permit application requires that you have so-and-so much insurance against damage to the street, and whatnot, and my landlord and I just Did Not Want to Deal with that. So he said I could put the cubes on his property... but there was only room for one, and I'd rented two cubes.
So what had to go right was— —the driver was willing to, and had the time to, deliver the first cube, wait for me to unload it, pick it up, and drop off the second cube, rather than just drop off both cubes and leave —the movers I hired to pack the cubes in Philadelphia fit almost all my stuff in one cube, so the second cube had only a few things in it, so it only took me ten minutes to unload, so the driver didn't actually have to wait very long for me to unload one cube to pick it up and deliver the other —the car that was parked in front of the house all day yesterday left in time for me to grab the space; if it had still been there it would have been completely impossible to deliver the cubes on the property —the guy that was going to park in that space between delivery of the first and second cubes was persuaded to leave —the forklift was able to get over the curb and up onto the sidewalk, so as to actually drop the cubes off on the landlord's property
If any of these hadn't been the case, the best-case scenario is that I would have had at least one cube parked illegally on the street overnight.
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Date: 2013-08-09 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-09 04:49 am (UTC)The city of Toronto doesn't really have a permiting process for moving containers. I mean, they do, but everything is centered around the assumption that the only people who will be putting such containers on the street will be, like, contractors doing renovations and demolitions, not tenants who are moving. So for instance the permit application requires that you have so-and-so much insurance against damage to the street, and whatnot, and my landlord and I just Did Not Want to Deal with that. So he said I could put the cubes on his property... but there was only room for one, and I'd rented two cubes.
So what had to go right was—
—the driver was willing to, and had the time to, deliver the first cube, wait for me to unload it, pick it up, and drop off the second cube, rather than just drop off both cubes and leave
—the movers I hired to pack the cubes in Philadelphia fit almost all my stuff in one cube, so the second cube had only a few things in it, so it only took me ten minutes to unload, so the driver didn't actually have to wait very long for me to unload one cube to pick it up and deliver the other
—the car that was parked in front of the house all day yesterday left in time for me to grab the space; if it had still been there it would have been completely impossible to deliver the cubes on the property
—the guy that was going to park in that space between delivery of the first and second cubes was persuaded to leave
—the forklift was able to get over the curb and up onto the sidewalk, so as to actually drop the cubes off on the landlord's property
If any of these hadn't been the case, the best-case scenario is that I would have had at least one cube parked illegally on the street overnight.