Moving Karma

In this world, there exists a certain balance (either positive or negative) with every person you meet. It starts out at 0, until a key event occurs – you help them move all their earthly possessions from one place of habitation to another. Helping someone move moves the slider into the positive for you, and therefore negative for them. This is what we like to call Moving Karma.

When you help someone move, you accumulate Moving Karma with them. But many things can effect how much Moving Karma (from here on out, “MK”) you get. Consider the following questions:

How much heavy furniture was involved? Was it sorta heavy, real heavy, or how-in-the-world-did-you-get-this-in-here-in-the-first-place heavy?

How many goofy doorways or corners are there in either the moved-out-of or moving-in-to house are there? Watch for single doorways that need doors removed to get items through them, corners halfway in a stairwell so you have to do a 180 to get up the stairs, low ceilings, etc?

What volume of items were involved? Is it mostly boxes, furniture, expensive fragile crap (lamps, paintings, etc)?

What was the person moving’s “Readiness To Move” Quotient? This value is determined by a simple formula: When you first arrive, look at every item in their domicile that can be carried by one person. Are more of those items in boxes, or still sitting in their house loose? The further the boxed items outnumber the unboxed items, the higher the “Readiness To Move” Quotient gets.
Editor’s note: Low RTM Quotients make Eric sad.

How long did the move take? Was it a wham-bam-thank-you-maam 3 hour move, a very arduous 6 hour move, or a full-on, dragged-out, sunrise-to-sunset move?

Were you, and if so, to what extent, fed by the people being moved? Were you hydrated as well? Many options here. Pizza? Homecooked? Taken out to eat? Fast food?

I know this is a long list, but I hope you understand the significance: when its time for you to move, you can control some of these, and its important to do what you can to make the experience as painless as possibile for the people who are doing backbreaking labor for you, for free.

I say all this, because of one important fact: The wife and I are moving! On Febuuarurarary 18th! We’d love for some help, and we promise that we’re even now taking the steps to do all we can to make sure our Readiness to Move Quotient is truely roxxor. Be looking for an email coming soon w/ details, if you live near enough to help, and I have your email address.

Today’s funny link: Microsoft Interview Questions – Funny only in the sense that compared to interview questions I was asked (“Name a time in your life when you’ve felt challenged?” lol), these are funny hard. Especially since without this list, you’d be put on the spot, bad.