When I made the move from my apartment just off campus into a larger, nicer apartment on the more northern side of of Canberra I decided to take the easy route.

I had just graduated from Canberra University and the easy route was the way I was looking to take when it came to everything. After all, I had just finished busting my butt for four years. I deserved a little rest, right?

I hired a freshman (who obviously really needed the cash) to come into my old apartment and clean it after I moved. I also hired a maid service to come in and do the same thing at my new apartment.

I even had the carpets cleaned. And to top it off, I hired a really great removalist. When I had first moved into the older apartment, I had not been nearly as smart. I was young, didn’t have much money, and decided to do everything myself. Including the moving.

It was a disaster. So, a slightly older (and educated) me made a great decision and opted for the moving service. They came, they moved. What more could I possibly have asked for. They did a great job.
No horror story here, all my furniture arrived in my new apartment exactly as it had departed.

I expressed my gratitude to one of the guys moving everything. He struck up a conversation, and before I knew it, we had become friends.
He was attending the very same University that I had graduated from and was due to graduate the following year. He had been working on and off for the moving company to make ends meet between semesters.

We kept in touch, and even started hanging out. It turned out we had a lot of the same interests (girls, mostly). The following year, when he graduated, he actually ended up becoming my roommate.

We hired a removalist to come and set him up in my apartment and we roomed together until last year, when I got married. In fact, he ended up keeping the apartment after I left. Isn’t that cool? It goes to show you…you never know.