oregonpackfan
09-03-2006, 01:24 AM
My wife and I just got back from taking our daughter for her freshman year at Pacific Lutheran University. It is a Division III school of 3,600 students located in Tacoma, WA.
In order to load all of her stuff, I had to remove 3 seats from our minivan. She had a trunk, 5 suitcases, several loaded cardboard boxes, AND a mini-refrigerator!
She wouln't believe my freshman move-in story. When I came to Marquette University many years ago, I arrived at the Milwaukee Greyhound Bus Station carrying just 1 trunk!
After going to the registration desk in mid-campus, I was still worried on how I was going to cart that refrigerator to my daughter's dorm room.
Upon driving my daughter's dorm, I saw half a dozen, PLU football players in their jerseys greeting the parents and their freshmen students. In a Public Relations move, the football coach ordered his players to each of the dorms to help the freshmen carry their bags up to their rooms.
Three of the players broke off and came up to my minivan and offered to help. I chose the biggest one(he turned out to be the team's left tackle) and said, "Hey, 73, I've got the perfect workout program for you!" and pointed out the refrigerator to him. Upon hearing my daughter's room number, he easily picked it up and ambled off. I assigned boxes/suitcases to the other two players.
Though it is a Division III school, PLU is in the competitive Northwest League, which includes Linfield College of McMinnville, OR. Linfield won the NCAA Division III football Championship last year.
Despite carrying the refrigerator 30 yards to the front door, going up two flights of stairs, and lugging it to the far end of the dorm, #73 reappeared in a few minutes and joked, "You call that a workout? What else have you got?"
As I loaded him down with several more suitcases, I could only shake my head with admiration. If I had tried to carry that refrigerator to my daughter's room, I'd be popping Advil for a week!
I arrived later in my daughter's room having carried just my daughter's laptop. My daughter and her roommate had decided they wanted to take their two twin beds and make bunkbeds to create more space.
The father of my daughter's roommate and I took a quick look at the beds. They were sturdily contructed of heavy maple wood frames with inlaid steel bracketing. Then we took a quick look at each other and marched to the hallway.
#73 was nowhere to be seen but we saw two more 0-linemen-sized players and shouted, "Hey guys, could we get a little help here?"
The two players marched right in, deftly picked up one of the heavy framed beds and lifted it into place over the other. We dads did the "important" task of fitting in the connecting pieces. The other dad and I were quite smug with outselves. Not only had we saved our lower back muscles, we were able to embarrass our teen-aged daughters one last time!
Did the PLU football team win my support? You better believe it! I'll be there for the Homecoming game as well as the game during Family weekend cheering on the team and giving #73 a special cheer!
OPF
In order to load all of her stuff, I had to remove 3 seats from our minivan. She had a trunk, 5 suitcases, several loaded cardboard boxes, AND a mini-refrigerator!
She wouln't believe my freshman move-in story. When I came to Marquette University many years ago, I arrived at the Milwaukee Greyhound Bus Station carrying just 1 trunk!
After going to the registration desk in mid-campus, I was still worried on how I was going to cart that refrigerator to my daughter's dorm room.
Upon driving my daughter's dorm, I saw half a dozen, PLU football players in their jerseys greeting the parents and their freshmen students. In a Public Relations move, the football coach ordered his players to each of the dorms to help the freshmen carry their bags up to their rooms.
Three of the players broke off and came up to my minivan and offered to help. I chose the biggest one(he turned out to be the team's left tackle) and said, "Hey, 73, I've got the perfect workout program for you!" and pointed out the refrigerator to him. Upon hearing my daughter's room number, he easily picked it up and ambled off. I assigned boxes/suitcases to the other two players.
Though it is a Division III school, PLU is in the competitive Northwest League, which includes Linfield College of McMinnville, OR. Linfield won the NCAA Division III football Championship last year.
Despite carrying the refrigerator 30 yards to the front door, going up two flights of stairs, and lugging it to the far end of the dorm, #73 reappeared in a few minutes and joked, "You call that a workout? What else have you got?"
As I loaded him down with several more suitcases, I could only shake my head with admiration. If I had tried to carry that refrigerator to my daughter's room, I'd be popping Advil for a week!
I arrived later in my daughter's room having carried just my daughter's laptop. My daughter and her roommate had decided they wanted to take their two twin beds and make bunkbeds to create more space.
The father of my daughter's roommate and I took a quick look at the beds. They were sturdily contructed of heavy maple wood frames with inlaid steel bracketing. Then we took a quick look at each other and marched to the hallway.
#73 was nowhere to be seen but we saw two more 0-linemen-sized players and shouted, "Hey guys, could we get a little help here?"
The two players marched right in, deftly picked up one of the heavy framed beds and lifted it into place over the other. We dads did the "important" task of fitting in the connecting pieces. The other dad and I were quite smug with outselves. Not only had we saved our lower back muscles, we were able to embarrass our teen-aged daughters one last time!
Did the PLU football team win my support? You better believe it! I'll be there for the Homecoming game as well as the game during Family weekend cheering on the team and giving #73 a special cheer!
OPF