Tyler and I drove down to provo to move some stuff into my house. He's sweet like that. I didn't have a bed yet and on the way we spotted a sleeper sofa on the sideo of the road. I bargained with the lady from $75 down to $40. We put it in his truck.
We get to my house and bring it in upstairs. The hallway is so narrow and the corner is too small to turn the couch into my room and at first we give up right there. I say, "let's just try anyway." It's really heavy and there is no A/C on in the house at the moment.
We try to flip it completely on it's side so it's almost touching the ceiling and try to somehow twist it into my room. It's going good for about 5 seconds and then the bed part that comes out fell out and hit the wall and jamms it up. I push it back into the couch. It's really hard and heavy to do this.
We try every angle possible playing real-life-not-fun-at-all Tetris. The stupid thing keeps falling out. We take off the door to my room. At one point the couch was vertically in the doorway and was so jammed we didn't know what to do. We seriously just looked at it for 10 minutes jammed in the doorway. Somehow, for some crazy reason, we moved it completely into the room across from my room. We now have a hard time moving it out of this room that my friend will eventually move into. We take off that door too. It's now been about an hour and a half since we brought this demon-seed of a couch up the stairs. The walls and sides of the doorway have been hanusly defiled.
We take a break for about 10 minutes getting a glass of water. We're standing there in silence, pondering whether we should give up. Maybe take a saw and cut it in half. Bringing it out of the house in two pieces sounded nice. I look at Tyler and tell him, "I love you."
We were going to try one more time. We found some plastic rope and tied the sleeper into the couch so it wouldn't keep falling out. Slowly and very tightly we shoved the 1970's throw-up design sleeper sofa past the barrier to my room. We smiled and soaked up the victory.
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