Me, to my mother, after lugging all my stuff up two flights of stairs: "My key doesn't work."
Me downstairs in the office: "My key doesn't work."
The office people: "That's your mailbox key."
My computer after setting it up to feed my AOL addiction without unpacking anything else: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present, press F1 to continue."
Me: "!@#$%^&*!!!!!"
Me while re-hooking up my computer after the moving and re-moving of much furniture: "Where's the mouse? I need a mouse!"
Jess (My roommate): "Squeak! Squeak!"
Me:"You are not cute AT ALL right now!"
Me: "Jess, look! My stereo manual is in the top drawer!"
Jess: "Well what the hell is it doing in there? Put it in the refrigerator!"
Me while watching Jess rearrange stuff: "You can't put that thing over the thing without taking the things out from underneath it first!"
Jess: "Yes I can!"
Me, to Allan who had come to observe the antics: "We have everything plugged into surge protectors."
Jess and I together: "We have surge protectors plugged into surge protectors!"
Eric as he entered the room, also to observe the antics: "Why are your peepholes nipple height?"
Me to Eric, who was sitting on a bed at the time: "Did you just pull a fiber optic toy out of your ass?"
Jess, while digging around in her top drawer: "Oh look, the freezer door!"
Me: "This should be a spectator sport."
And to give you a small taste of what the other Beacon staff members went through last Monday, I asked a few of them, "What was the weirdest thing you encountered on move-in day?" The responses were as follows:
Allan: A giant soapy brown wad of paper towel that came out of my toilet.
Larry: A garbage can full of dishes, soap, and water.
And last but not least, a Beacon staff member who wishes to remain anonymous said that the weirdest thing they saw on move-in day was, "My roommate's parents."