Had to tell someone yesterday that I didn’t wait until the last minute to try and get help moving. I started the 6th of June when Joseph Allen told me he had terminated my lease and I would have less than 30 days to move out. I spent most of that day calling people and mostly leaving messages. Friends, acquaintances, businesses. People who left me numbers for other things. Going through my old phone numbers. Friends and former neighbors who moved but might still know someone here. And telling them I can pay but not $80. or more an hour.
Why or how do people fail to understand I am on crutches because my left knee no longer holds me up. I cannot walk with crutches and carry a grocery bag much less boxes.
The handful of people who are able to lift or move haven’t been able to come over to help. One neighbor has done runs to the storage place for boxes. But no one else has even called back to say they can’t help. I finally hired a service but I won’t be ready for them and everything needs to be out. I won’t have a back door when the fridge is moved. No way to lock up my apartment. And I had hoped to get food and groceries over to where I will be staying. There are 3 people who have offered to help but no one with a car.
I have been asking everyplace I go. Any one who could help for money, Maybe needing extra income, Teens who don’t have a full time day job or could come over in the evening. I have been asking people I don’t know, not the best thing, but maybe someone knew of something. No takers.
At least half of my days I have been trying to get help in getting more time. And going in circles. When I get back on line I will add ranting about how the help system is set up not to work and how pathetic the Kansas City Bar Association is.
Leaving messages for attorneys, getting mostly no response. I have contacted over 40 attorneys, mostly getting referrals to the same name. And only 5 have returned my call. It’s going to be a nasty day with no air conditioning. At least 2 of the attorneys were kind enough to let me know how the system really works. Unfortunately Joseph Allen has already violated city and state laws in his termination of my lease. And possibly federal laws. But it isn’t going to help me move in the next two days.
If I can get things out today the computer will probably go. And I probably won’t be getting pictures up for a week or so. The coffee shop is two blocks from the bus stop, That’s 10 miles on crutches.
