Lindsay carefully packed Danny's books into a box. While Danny picked up and armful of stuff and just dumped it into a box.
"Why do men never know how to pack?"
"Why do women pack everything but the kitchen sink?" Danny countered.
"I think the kitchen sink has to stay, it came with the apartment." Lindsay pointed out.
"Why don't you show me how to pack?" Danny suggested.
"You have to sort it into three piles."
"Three piles."
"Stuff you want to bring to my place, stuff to put in storage and stuff that you can donate to Goodwill or some other charity."
"Why am I giving stuff to goodwill?" Danny asked.
"Because when you move you realise just how much crap you have that you don't need or are never going to use that someone might. So you might as well get rid of it."
"So you threw everything out?"
"I sent four boxes to Goodwill when I moved."
"Okay."
"Why don't you finish going through the books?" Lindsay suggested.
It took another four hours to finish packing up Danny's stuff.
Three boxes of stuff to go to Goodwill, another five boxes to take to Lindsay's which they were taking with him.
There were twelve boxes of things he insisted on keeping but didn't need on a daily basis which would go to storage with all but two items of furniture.
"How did I accumulate so much stuff?" Danny asked surveying it all.
"How long have you lived here?"
"About five years."
"That's how." Lindsay replied. "How about we take this stuff and go home? You and Flack can move the rest tomorrow?"
"So that's how it works, you leave me to move by myself?"
"I helped you pack and I'll help you unpack. Moving furniture wasn't part of the deal. Besides you picked the day you and Don had off. It's not my fault I have to work."
"I think it's a conspiracy." Danny replied.
"You think that and I'll grab these boxes." Lindsay picked up the two lightest boxes. "I want Chinese food."
"You're thinking about food?"
"I haven't eaten in about eight hours and it's almost nine. I think food is appropriate."
"Is that a subtle hint for me to offer to pay?"
"No it's a hint for you to get moving. I'll call the order in when we get in the car."
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Lindsay stood looking proudly at her work. She'd installed a new shelving system and set up all Danny's books.
She had finished the rest of the unpacking, so other than a really ugly old chair which Danny loved and a dresser he was all moved in.
Lindsay went and got dressed for work and left Danny a note.
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When Danny and Flack carried the chair up the stairs and into the apartment they set it down.
Danny noticed the note.
Danny,
There is beer and sandwiches in the fridge.
I'll see you when I get back from work.
Love L xx
P.S. Don't drink and drive.
P.P.S Admire my shelf building skills.
Danny couldn't help but smile.
"What?" Flack asked.
"There's beer and sandwiches in the fridge, we're not to drink and drive and she would like us to admire her handywoman skills in building shelves."
"Hey if she can take a car apart and rebuild it I wouldn't argue with her shelf building skills."
"Arguing with her is fun. She's usually right most of the time and so the argument is unnecessary."
"But of course it brings about the benefits of make up sex."
"Of course." Danny smirked. "Do you want the beer before or after we move the dresser?"
TBC