Pool Tables

Pool Tables weight about 1 Ton. In my opinion. I guess I don't really get an opinion here because I didn't lift it, but still. Pool tables are not meant to be moved more than once. I learned that lesson. Recently, a fellow Navy family posted they were selling a pool table. They were moving and the table could not accompany them. It was a great table for a great price. I mentioned it to Mr. International. Enter chaos. We get there to pick it and realize that two men could not possible transport this thing. The seller graciously phones two neighbors to come help lift it into our truck bed. Us two wives, both under 5'4" mind you, crawl under it to unscrew the legs. WHAT WERE WE THINKING? I don't know. The legs don't unscrew. They happen to be bolted in. Fantastic. After some more poking and prodding the legs are off and the table in the truck. Great!

Not great. There is just me and the Man to unload it. If you are internally laughing, I understand. I round up three complete strangers to my husband (not me, one of us lives in here remember?) and these men get the table out of the bed of the truck and up the front steps. It won't go in the door. A friendly neighbor sitting on his stoop casually asks if they need any help. I'm guessing the four struggling Sailors, kids running around, and flying pumpkins didn't make that clear enough. So, now we have FIVE grown men pushing this thing into the house. Did I mention it's in my house and not the garage?

Whew. The legs are on. No one is dead. No broken fingers. The four guys leave with promises of beer and pool. Mr. International gets to work fixing the table, leveling it, brushing it, whatever men do with new pool tables.

We take a step back to admire this new addition to our home to realize it takes up the entire front room of our house. This thing huge. It goes from the living room onto the dinning room floor. I mean really, really huge. That's okay. We move in six months. I can live with a ginormous table in the middle of my house for six months. I'm flexible and cool. We go a couple of days and adjust our routine with this behemoth fun thing in our home.

Until the third day. When my husband says he wants it in the garage.

-Dev