Traditional Television’s are Heavy!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
by Mark

My brother Matty (Rigers) picked up the television that he bought from eBay today!

I was at dads dog sitting (don’t ask :P) and Matty came home from work (at around 5:10pm) and said ‘we’ll go pick the TV up at about 7ish, leaving at about 6:50′. After a while Darren then arrived so he could look after the dog while we were out - incase he starts biting his leg again (which is starting to heal quite nice now!).

So, Matty and I got into the car, setup the satnav for the ladies address and setup. 15 minutes later (yes, we needed satnav for a 15 minute journey as the road was in a maze of little roads, one of those new sets of houses, pathetic roads - from google earth it looks like a bowl of freaking spaghetti or something!) we got there, although we were unsure if it was the right house (but it was!).

The ladies son helped Matty get it in the car, with a tug here, and a push there - we managed to get the bloody thing into the back seat of Matty’s car, that bloody thing was heavy! We then came up against another problem - the stand was not yet in the car, and there was no more room left, and Matty had his sub in the back so it is not like it could have gone in there. Then I had the idea of opening the window, and having it on my lap half hanging out of the window - IT WORKED! We got it in there.

So we drive back, got the stand out of the car so I could get out - then put that in the house. Then we got Darren to help us attempt to get it out of the car - which proved rather harder than getting it IN the car. Somehow, I managed to grab hold enough of it, so me and Darren were holding up this monster of a freaking TV, although we were looking at each other as if to say “omg, who is holding it? I dunno, neither of us I know”. So with that, me and Matty walked it to the back gate, at which point my fingers were feeling as though they were about to fall off (bloody sharp plastic underneath!) and Matty said that he felt like his back was giving in. So, we put it on the floor (on my foot). Darren then took over from Matty, and we got it to the back door - at this point Matty realised that we did not pick up the remote control from the lady, so he headed back off in his car, leaving me and Darren to get it in the house, and up the stairs (mighty small and steep stairs, I might add!). So, we got it to the bottom of the stairs, and realised this was going to be difficult.

After quite a bit of thinking, we decided to just go for it - we done one step, then I thought “oh sod this, lets get going” haha, so I said “ok, ive got it, you push, three, two one!” then we just went, and I said “we’re on a roll, DON’T STOP!” and we managed to get to the very top of the stairs! With a bit of twisting and pulling we got it in his room.

*sighs in relief*. If he moves, the TV stays - end of story!