How to move a sofa

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can confirm. Until I threw my back in my forties, I was Tony.

  I threw my back helping someone move an exercise machine. For someone else.

  A pizza is the price. Two toppings is typical, or the everything special.

  For a while I was also the guy with the cordless drill you could borrow.

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh shit. Oh no.

  Im that guy who fixes small engines and computers.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same here. Phones, PCs, and sometimes game consoles. I usually charge a trip to get ice cream from A&W or Coldstone or something.

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  • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My condolences

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• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  in my experience, this is also how 3d printers work…

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  • ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg yes, i don’t even mind being the 3d printer guy. Now I don’t feel so bad for not being someone’s truck guy

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    • darkmogool@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yup… same for me

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  • mastod0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh god, you’re right…

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My cousin has become Kevin. She got a big old van for her 2 kids. It has split duty now. Although she doesn’t do any of the moving and the price is a full tank of gas.

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At today’s gas prices you could professional movers and still buy yourself a pizza afterwards :(

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, she rarely lets it get below half. She’s not trying to fleece us.

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• FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like this premise could make an entertaining movie if you figured out the 3 act structure

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  • OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With that beautiful writing style? This prose would be lost on film.

    Honestly, I thought this was an excerpt from some modern classic usamerican novel. I was fully expecting to find this comment section full of references and people talking about the book.

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    • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can see a narration style like this working for a comedy film. Or maybe just a 5 minute skit. Maybe throw in some Wes Anderson visual gags

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• craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is very wholesome. Also all of the quotes have a very funny American accent in my head.

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• Outdated4134@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This must be downvoted because it is absolutely not a shitpost.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish there was a community for it, like cool bro shit.

    Or Maybe wholesome memes?

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, wholesome would be a good fit

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• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this that communism/neighborhood community thing everybody keeps talking about?

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So we’ve re-derived living in a community from first principles?

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well pizza principals at least.

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      pizza principles are the best principles

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• CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Australia the price is beer. If it’s a small job, one or two beers, either while doing the job or at the end, big job means a whole case of beer per person. Everyone would think there was something wrong with you if you provided only pizza.

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  • Crostro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what if, as a Canadian, I offered both pizza, and a 12 pack per person? What does that get for help?

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    • ErevanDB@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In america, that’d get You at least one army platoon (not officially, of course). Not sure about australia.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Canada you pay in beer too.

      What you described would be a 2 week job.

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• JustDorky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m in halifax, Nova Scotia, if someone knows a guy, let me know

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  • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just ask Kevin.

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  • sydd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the town with the cult?

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    • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like a notable cult? Im sure if you look hard enough you will find a cult everywhere. Trying not to dox myself but in highschool i sat outside a doughnut shop downtown and there was a random building with just a sign with an acronym. Google search later palce was a cult and kinda proud of it. Those small cults are freaking everywhere. They kinda seem like a way for people to hang out if they dont havw a hobby, like lodges.

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• axus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two decades later, I still regret the temporary back injury a friend sustained helping me to load my heavy desk into a truck I rented.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  PIVOT

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. You know how I got a guy for everything? Well, they’re all in New York. My suit guy, my shoe guy, my ticket guy, my club guy. And if I don’t have a guy for something, then I have a guy guy to get me a guy. And oddly enough, his name is Guy.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Barney, is that you?

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• Newhere@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same way works in eastern Europe. And especially if you give away furniture to get new one,you can ask person who gets your old stuff to help you to bring a new stuff. As a female, this always worked for me.
  Only once I paid something like 50 eur for sofa delivery, because it was during week that I had to pick up from private on certain time and friends were working.

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• CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a beautiful piece of art, I like how not having a truck didn’t make you useless.

  I’m not American we’re not big on trucks here, unless you’re an independent contractor they do have trucks even though they don’t really fit our country haha.

  But if someone needs help to move something and you can’t supply the car, you’re instantly considered useless and never involved in anything from that moment on. Doesn’t even matter if you can move the whole couch by yourself.

  You’re excluded. It’s a peaceful life, but it gets lonely at times.

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• AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is heartwarming. It sounds inaccurate. I don’t have a truck, but stranger if you live around Portland, I’ll help you move a sofa.

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No truck either but a friend needed a hand to move his stuff.

    I came, other of his friends came as well.

    We moved the furniture, the books and even the gym equipment.

    Pizza was offered and shared.

    A couple years later, I show up for a job interview. One ofy friend’s friend is my interviewer. He asks technical questions, I answer.

    He eventually claims I now my stuff so he stops with the questions and we have a relaxed chat.

    I got the job and still work there after all these years.

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  • Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can drive my truck down

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What an oddly unexpected and wholesome American story.

  As a reward, here is another: youtu.be/xOp4PO0Ek9A

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I live in the other part of America where you just hire someone.

  When I talk about hiring someone, many people in other America nearly gasp.

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this sofa moved.

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• Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  arigatou gozaimasu amerikajinsan

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• Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A++ saving to read again today at a low point

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• portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Self organising society can’t work eh? I present exhibit 1A without comment.

  People can be good. A society can regulate itself if it is made of good people and bad people are cast out.

  Thank you. I liked this, real or not

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Without comment eh?

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• undecidedyellow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the best human interaction I’ve read about in a long time. Maybe ever.

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  • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately it’s not real. The account is a bot pushing far right, racist crap.

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• magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Murica stronk

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, only superficially

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is beautiful…

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• onion_dude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was in America the other day and I saw a guy passed out on the street choking on his own vomit. Nobody stopped to help.

  I guess it’s too bad he didn’t need a truck

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You didn’t stop to help??

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    • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably didn’t have a pizza

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was there too. The guy alternated between vomiting and screaming: “Does anyone have a truck?!”

    I was next to you in the passenger seat and said to the vomiting man: “I know a guy.” You shifted gears and continued straight for another mile or so.

    From the rearview mirror I saw the guy being lifted into another truck. I repeated: “I know a guy.”

    You took a left and said: “An ambulance is not a truck.”

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• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is good when people help each other. It warms a truck when a community sticks by each other.

  Shit like this is why I love the punk scene. The punk scene is like the idealized small American town, for you may one day be asked to help someone you barely know and do it without a second thought. Why wouldn’t you help someone who needs it. You know damn well that when the time comes and you too need help, it will be found.

  I have pulled on my network of comrades to make sure someone got a phone. This was done for the price of food and fellowship.

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This could have been lifted from a Neal Stephenson book.

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