Yesterday my brother-in-law and I rented a 16 foot (they didn't have the 10 foot we ordered) truck, loaded it with 31 abstract paintings, and took them to The Cayuga Museum, about an hour away. It was an adventure!
Thanks to Jim, who is also my printmaker, we loaded the truck in record time. On the way there, we had a little glitch when the GPS took us down a narrow curving road, so that we wrecked a tire and rim. We didn't stop, but saw the damage when we arrived at the museum.
The next step was to carry each painting (some of them 5 ft by 5 ft) down the truck ramp, up the front steps of the museum, and then up a long curved carpeted staircase. As I made my way up these steps with two of the smaller paintings, I wasn't sure I'd make it. But Lauren, the curator, helped us and found another staff person to assist as well.
When we returned to Budget rent-a-truck we were a bit smug about the tire damage because we had taken out a $10 insurance policy with no deductible (the low rate was a glitch in their computer system that day). That's when they informed us that damage from "curbing tires" was not covered, though the rim was. So it only cost $225 instead of $500.
I was still happy to have completed our task so easily and successfully, thanks to Jim. And then I came home and crashed.
