Rainy Day

It was raining yesterday. This would actually figure because yesterday, in the rain, a team of six loaded a 45 foot shipping container with what basically remained of  the Newvo Deco Wallpaper Store.
    For those of you who are not familiar with Newvo Deco, allow me to quickly explain. 
    In the mid 90's, my husband and a buddy of his, bought a building in Indy. Their idea was to resale the building for profit. The building housed a vast collection of wallpaper - a wallpaper outlet.  And the story there is that the previous owners, collected old, industrial printers to repair and resale. In their search for old printers, they came across a wallpaper manufacturer in Massachusetts that had printers to sale with the stipulation that the buyers would need to take their entire inventory of wallpaper. So a wallpaper outlet was set up in Indianapolis. Semi after semi truck brought the paper, printers and everything involved in wallpaper manufacturing, to Indianapolis from Massachusetts. And the printer guys ran the wallpaper outlet for more than a decade until they sold the building and the outlet to my husband and his buddy.
    We ran the outlet for 6 or 7 years and the building finally sold. Just when I thought that all the paper would need to be sent to a landfill, two people showed up and bought the remaining paper. They loaded paper on trucks and hauled it to Anderson, Indiana. The kicker here is that they ended up renting space from my husband in this building, here in Anderson. When they got behind on their space rent, they gave the paper back to my husband.  
   The wallpaper has been sitting in this building for about 5 years.
     Meantime, my husband meets a young woman from Mongolia. She has lived in this country for
8 years and is basically into buying goods and reselling them.  She worked out a deal with my husband to take this wallpaper to Mongolia to resale. So now this paper and vinyl which has travelled from Massachusetts to Indianapolis to Anderson is  on it's way to Mongolia to line the concrete block walls of that nation's homes.  Bon voyage!

    Now that I've brought you this far, I'll give a quick run down of the trying times we faced yesterday.

*   The shipping container was an hour and 1/2 late getting here, so we had labor standing around ... waiting.

*    The shipping container people, expect the container to be loaded in two hours or extra charges of $75.00 per hour will be incurred....it's called detention time and we racked up 3 extra hours of detention past the two hours allowed.

*   The guy who was generous enough to provide a forklift for this project had gone to lunch when the shipping container got into position, so the crew started off hand loading the container.

*   The guy generous enough to provide a forklift for this project, returned from lunch and moved one pallet before he realized that he was out of gas... so he left to go get gas - and the laborers continued to load the container by hand.

*  The guy generous enough to provide a forklift for this project returned with more gas and started moving skid after skid into place and was half way through the process before the forklift overheated and filled the entire building full of noxious fumes. He turned the forklift off to let it cool and the laborers were once again loading the shipping container by hand.

 

*The entire project was done in the pouring rain!