For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 04, 2018

if they had tarps, the mattresses wouldn’t get soaked

That’s crazy. Such a rickety truck and Phil put Georgia in the back? She can easily be tossed out of the truck and the bed gate won’t keep her in. It’s barely secured with wires, apparently. This truck needs to retire and taken to a car graveyard.

Why doesn’t she drive and let Mr Cheapskate ride in the back?

A small model upright piano weighs in the region of 300 to 400 pounds (136 to 181 kg). If that piano flips on Georgia, she is going to be hurt.

The inclusion of the piano in the move sends a secondary message that in addition to being an incompetent mover and not much of a husband, Phil is also an incompetent musician. This is not the way you treat an expensive instrument like a piano. Sitting in a truck like that will snap the foot pedals and the front legs right off.

Why didn’t the gracious Phil let Georgia drive?

Georgia is a real trooper to have not flipped her lid by now. Moving is stressful enough as it is!

Georgia should be driving, Phil in the back.

Just think: if they were traveling through southern California they could’ve ended up with Jack Nicholson in the back of the truck.

This is why you need a U-Haul

Yes, a truck that rides like a truck, how weird. The great thing about a good pickup is they last forever. My Tacoma is going on 16 years and it does not ride like a Lexus either. The worst thing is those mattresses are toast. They will be wet and stink. The piano won’t be in great shape either. They couldn’t afford tarps?

Looks like they will have to get a new mattress. Good thing Purple mattresses come in a vacuum-packed cylinder that can be delivered to their door and Phil and Georgia can open the package right there.

That’s how you know this is just a comic; if this was real life it would have ended in disaster and maybe even tragedy!

My wife WOULD NOT have put up with such behavior out of me !!

Why doesnt Georgia drive?

She’ll make her next husband hire a moving company.

I wonder if Cold War Motors has since rescued that old truck and put it back on the road.

I once helped a friend move a piano, the guy in back play it as we drove down the street. He was quite a hit with our fellow travelers.

I’ve never liked the character Phil and this just reinforces my feelings. What an absolute and total loser.

It’s like watching a slapstick comedy routine…I see this time the back of the truck is filled with stuff that not only gets damaged by water, but also by unsteady jerks and stops…and there is Geo in mortal danger from the unsecured piano. That’s the comedy in all of it, that’s for sure. I mean if Phil et al were doing any thinking, they would have at least put the piano between two mattresses and covered the whole load with a tarp. … ; – )))

Hence my yesterday’s post about hiring a special mover for our piano. Not only was this piano secured to the floor and to the wall of the truck, but also in was covered by padding during the move. But where is the joke in that?

This sure is not Smokey and the Bandit.

I’m betting someone is going to be “cut off” for the foreseeable future.

But, …itʻs FREEE!

I….would NOT have been OK.

I do not understand people that own trucks but not tarps. I bought three within the first week of buying my truck. And yes, I have helped people move way too many times…