I asked each company of movers that I called for a timetable for our impending move. I explained that I had to be in Los Angeles and ready to start work on the 1st day of September.

The estimates of time that I received from all the movers except one were a joke. They ranged from 5 months downwards and only one said he thought he could do it in under a month. I asked all the movers why they thought the move would take so long and all I got was shoulder shrugs. So I selected the movers who offered the shortest time frame and signed the contract.

In the end we didn’t make it in their one month schedule but it had nothing to do with the movers. There was some sort of shipping strike by the port-workers and the ship sat in the port with our container cooking on the deck. I was terrified when the movers carried all our goods up from the container in LA, expecting to find sun damage to many items, but there was not a mark. The only real damage was to my ego, after all the trouble I took with the schedule.