Movers get a bad rap. Their companies are frequently thought of as fly-by-night operations. Usually they lose or break some of your things, and they help you lose your security deposit by scratching the walls. They’re always expensive, and it usually takes longer than you would have hoped. But they work long hours doing a strenuous job everybody hates — you rarely hear someone talking excitedly about lugging all their stuff to a new home. Perhaps that’s really why we tend to think the worst of them. You’d have to be a little nuts to take any enjoyment in a job as a mover. Right?

Quote of the Week

Late Sunday afternoon, outside an apartment building near Logan Circle:

Two movers walking out of an apartment building towards an empty moving truck holding cases of beer:
Mover 1 to mover 2 rhetorically: “Does everyone think movers are alcoholics? Why do people always give us beer, it would be nice get some real juice once in a while–or a better tip.”

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Photo by Andrew Wiseman