We got the couch today! This photo in bright sunlight makes it look weird and dayglo. Which would actually be kind of cool, but that's not what we got. It's actually a softer sort of pumpkin orange and matte leather, not shiny.
I drove the truck out to Ecko at noon and Georg met me there. Actually we met at Steak n Shake and had lunch first. The couch was a little too big to close the back of the truck, but didn't hang over the edge or anything. The drive back was fine -- well fine for me, I just drove slowly. Georg felt a little nervous driving behind me, staring at the couch the whole way. But the tie-down held, thank goodness.
Getting it into the house was a chore. There's a tight turn in the kitchen so we couldn't come in the back door. Instead we had to carry it all the way around to the front of the house and up the front steps. That was the tricky part, tilting it to get it in the door at top of the steps. We laid down a rug on the front porch so we wouldn't risk scraping the leather on the threshold, which made that part a lot easier.
The truck was filthy (it sat outside unused for months, and before that we only used it for carrying mulch and dirt) so I took it to the car wash this morning. I had never been to one of those "touchless" car washes before. As you might guess, it's not good for an artcar! Those power jets would knock the toys right off.
Those if you who have nice cars and wash them probably know this already, but the way it works is you stop at a machine in front of the car wash (which looks like the place where you order at the fast-food drive through), punch in what you want, pay, then the machine tells you when to drive in. There were a couple of people ahead of me and when I got to the machine I saw that the guy before me had left his change behind. I want to run around to the car wash exit to give it to him as he came out, but I had parked too close to the machine and I couldn't get the door open far enough to get out! Fortunately there was a man there doing maintenance on the other aisle, and I was able to get his attention. He looked annoyed but he took the change and gave it to the other customer.
Even after the car wash there's still some dirt that would need to be scrubbed off with a brush. It's not all the way to "clean" but the car wash was able to eliminate the "what the hell happened to that car" look. What really mattered was it got the bed clean and dry, so I didn't have to worry about carrying new furniture in it.
Now I'm exhausted from moving the old furniture out and the new furniture in. Good thing I have a nice new couch to sprawl out on.
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