08.09.07
Toy Trucks, just €12.50/hour!
Ikea has opened a store here in Ancona. I’m not a huge fan of the place myself, but I can’t deny that some good deals can be had there. Just before we left for the US, a set of bookshelves that I paid way too much for came crashing down to the floor. There was a huge hole in the wall where the anchor pulled loose, and the shelves themselves actually broke. Clearly, a high-quality piece of furniture.
So now that we’re back in Italy, we made the trek to Ikea for some new shelves. My teammate, Marcus, had to buy some big pieces for his kitchen, so we thought we should rent a truck. We didn’t have that much stuff to transport, so Marcus opted for the smallest truck available.
I personally wasn’t really prepared for how small the “truck” was going to be. It was a tight squeeze for two of us to fit in the cab! Here’s a great picture of Marcus unzipping the back.
But you know what? It worked, and it was cheap! And we had a couple of laughs as I drove it on the highway and tried to get it to go 70 km/h so cars wouldn’t run over us.
amy cormode said,
08.09.07 at 1:12 pm
Brian, hilerious! Great pictures, i remember in Perugia when the Milliser’s crate from the states arrived, they paid an older gentleman with an ape, an APE (you know the little mini-truck/carts) to haul it from the train station up to the center. We had to cut the crate in half and he made two trips, it was so small, also quite a spectacle. I think his going rate for foreigners was a bit more than 12.50 euro an hour though:).
amy
Brian said,
08.09.07 at 3:44 pm
It’s funny, because you only see old men driving those ape around. And for you English speakers, an ape isn’t a primate, it’s a bee, and it’s also the name of a tiny, three-wheeled vehicle here in Italy. I think they kind of sound like a cross between a bee and a lawn mower.
Ryan said,
08.10.07 at 9:17 am
That’s awesome. I wouldn’t recommend you get one of these for the famiy vehicle you were hoping to get from the VBS money. hahaha.
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Ryan
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