My Advice Is For The Birds
You would think making a furniture delivery is a routine thing. Not always. In early-August I pulled into a customer’s lot in Harrisburg, Pa. and parked in an alley next to their garage door. It was one of those summer afternoons when the storms are hit or miss. I had been doing a lot of hitting throughout the day- I was glad I seemed to be “missing” at the moment as this customer was getting a fairly good amount of furniture and I needed things to go smoothly because I had more stops across many miles and I was becoming pressed for time. We were moving along good and then halfway through the process the sky opened up. Things went from sprinkles to full-blast downpour in seconds. We put our game on pause. This did not bother me, even given the time issue, because I had empathy for our customer working without protection on the ground. While I was under the roof of the trailer, he had no ceiling and would get instantly soaked (along with his brand-new furniture.) So we waited....