Couch To Eugene

We scored a couch for dashing daughter's apartment a week ago and we took it down to Eugene today. The couch looked like a real deal when we bought it, but I had forgotten about the entry to the apartment. The entry door opens into a hall, so you can go straight in about three feet before you run into the wall. And that doorway looks none-to-wide neither. Tape measure reveals that we will have to take the door off. That was the easiest part of the job. There was another doorway sitting catty-wampus at the bottom of the stairs. So we had the couch on it's back, because it is not as tall as it is deep. That works until we are halfway through the door, the we have to tilt it half way back, and hoist one end really high and let the other end down really low, and that gets us through the door. Once upstairs we have to pull the same trick to get it around the corner and through another fire door. Now it is lined up with the entry door to the apartment. One end goes in and up, the back end goes down and gets pushed in. Now the couch is standing on end in the entryway. Spin it ninety degrees and we can push the bottom end into the living room and catch the top end as it falls. Fortunately we had several people there to help. Coincidentally a friend of my daughter's was moving into the apartment downstairs this afternoon and her parents had also shown up to help. Never mind all the little bits of hardware we snagged in the process. Of course, if I wasn't so out of shape, it wouldn't have been half as bad.