Cleaning Up After Your Storage Customers

As a manager of a storage place, not Clairlea storage, my wife and I collected a lot of stuff people would leave behind.  They were not supposed to leave it behind, but they did often.  They left in the night sometimes, emptied their storage unit or space, and realized everything they had would not fit in the truck they rented.  They would discuss what stayed and what went in the truck, sometimes-major battles took place.  We would not get involved except to say it all most go, it is part of the contract you signed.  We can charge you a cleaning and dumping fee if you would rather just leave it.  As a manager, I was the cleaning and dumping person, so why not make a few more bucks for the company.

Many left without us being there though, and we would come to work and find storage spaces filled with stuff left behind.  This can be a headache even for Clairlea storage places and for all managers.  It was fun at first, going through a large ten by twenty-storage space and seeing what was left.  Some customers would come directly to the office and say please take this, we can not fit it in our truck.  We would understand and take it and store it in a special storage space called bilge units or special units.

Sometimes we had too many special units and combined them into a few, or just threw the stuff away.  Anyway you did it though; it cost the manager time and money.  It made you strong though, lifting mattresses over your head or dragging sofa sleepers all over the property.  Some people would just leave junk by their storage units when they left and the managers had to clean that up to.

We had a golf cart and pulled a wagon behind us to get rid of stuff.  The golf cart was a blast and we used to give rides to friends and family when we were not so busy working.  Customers loved them to, to show the storage spaces on a very big property.  Everybody likes a golf cart ride.  We loved them too, and even young kids could drive them pretty safely, if one did not take the curves too quickly. We think we should take up golf just to drive the golf carts.  We could do that.  We would never hit the ball, just drive around on the golf cart.  Some golf carts were slow and needed work, while a newer one could fly down the road and impress potential customers.  Fast golf carts are cool.

We wonder if Clairlea storage places in Ontario, Canada, have golf carts too.  We think about those things being in the business and such while we are on vacation.  It is hard to escape your job sometimes, even on vacation.  Storage is a fun job most of the time though, so we do not mind the banter between us concerning storage.  It is fun to talk about and think of all the funny stories we have to tell.  Golf carts are part of those fun stories too.  We have seen a few of them ourselves.  Our dog liked to ride them and would jump off sometimes.  He would spin and fall and roll to his feet every time he jumped off one going fast.

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