CONAN O'BRIEN, 7/18/97 - CONAN'S DAY AT THE ...
Conan O'Brien, 7/18/97 - Conan at The Jersey Truck-Driving School in East Rutherford, NJ, run by 'Bill', trying to soak up as much of ...
2 Hours Late
As many of you know, we’re in the process of selling our house in Jersey and moving the rest of our stuff to Kansas City. The closing on the house was yesterday, and it went pretty smoothly. But the process of moving has been a bit challenging, to say the least. I feel like the theme of my trip has been “2 hours late”. For example:
My flight from KC to Newark was delayed 2 hours. When I went to pick up the moving truck, it took 2 hours longer than it should have because they had to send me to another rental location because the first truck was not driveable. (Turns out the second one wasn’t either. More on that later.) The day we loaded the truck, it was raining heavily, which I am estimating slowed us down by about – you guessed it – 2 hours. My friend who was helping me went to pick up his kids at school, and the normal 15 minute drive turned into 2 hours due to flooding. The moving truck I ended up with had 5 different warning lights on. They told me I could still drive it, but as I was driving down to my in-laws to pick up more stuff, I realized that whenever this one particular light was on, I could drive no faster than 45mph. So the drive took much longer than usual. Maybe not a full 2 hours, but close enough. When we arrived I discovered we had left much more stuff at my in-laws than I thought, so I had to unload and repack about half of the truck. This morning I brought the truck in to get repaired. Thankfully they will be able to fix it (I was dreading having to unload the entire content of the 24′ truck into a new one), but it won’t be done until tomorrow morning. Now this list is turning into “24 hours late”, so I’m going to stop it in the hopes that this will be the last entry.I was a bit irritated yesterday, but the Lord reminded me today that sometimes when we face resistance it is because we are doing something significant. So despite the challenges, I am encouraged and excited about this next chapter in KC. I just hope the rest of our trip goes more smoothly!
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