How to Pack
Leaving on an impromptu road trip with about 24 hours notice? Here’s how to prepare like a pro.
- Plan to do your laundry well in advance.
- Text all your friends to hang out before you leave.
- Think about putting your laundry in.
- Go out to dinner with your local bestie.
- Regroup at your home for the farewell party.
- Have a blast. Night winds down. Think about putting in your laundry.
- Sit on the couch listening to music for hours.
- Struggle to stay awake to chat with your roommates. Think about putting in your laundry.
- Admit that you will not be doing laundry tonight. Set your alarm to a nice, early hour so you can pack at a good pace the next day.
- Pass out on the couch. Wake up on time, at least.
- Spend another hour listening to music, rationalize that you can put the laundry off for a bit without issue. But you really want to listen to this song right now. Oh, and this one…
- Start your goddamn laundry.
- Sort out what you need to pack besides clothing. Pack too much. Weed it down.
- Still too much.
- Search high and low for your camera’s memory card USB that one ex gave you, accept once and for all that you definitely left it at your more recent ex’s and will never see it again. Brood.
- Chastise yourself for being disappointed over the USB. Some people have real problems.
- And you’re about to travel to summer, ffs. You can’t complain about anything.
- Remember your laundry.
- Throw all your clothes in the dryer, underwear and favorite gauzy dress included. Hope you don’t completely ruin them.
- Clean hurriedly.
- Remember to eat.
- Retrieve clothes from dryer, start packing. Realize how little your pack can actually hold.
- Decide that you will take an extra bag and get a new, proper-sized pack when you get to Florida.
- Realize you’ve utterly miscalculated the timing on getting to the bus and are late at the moment.
- Enlist your roommate as a pack mule to carry your extra bag, thus lightening the load and helping you get to the bus ASAP.
- Rush to the train, shins practically bleeding.
- Be informed by your roommate that the A train actually only takes half the time you thought to get to midtown. Rejoice!
- Board A train, find out it is running local. Facepalm.
- In spite of it all, arrive to bus stop only five minutes late. Bus is on time for once, gone.
- Get seat on next bus, sans change charge. Rejoice.
- Get to DC. Realize you cannot carry this extra bag with you the whole trip.
- Enlist roommate who is coincidentally in DC at the same time as you to take it back up to New York.
- Repack.
How to Pack
Leaving on an impromptu road trip with about 24 hours notice? Here’s how to prepare like a pro.
- Plan to do your laundry well in advance.
- Text all your friends to hang out before you leave.
- Think about putting your laundry in.
- Go out to dinner with your local bestie.
- Regroup at your home for the farewell party.
- Have a blast. Night winds down. Think about putting in your laundry.
- Sit on the couch listening to music for hours.
- Struggle to stay awake to chat with your roommates. Think about putting in your laundry.
- Admit that you will not be doing laundry tonight. Set your alarm to a nice, early hour so you can pack at a good pace the next day.
- Pass out on the couch. Wake up on time, at least.
- Spend another hour listening to music, rationalize that you can put the laundry off for a bit without issue. But you really want to listen to this song right now. Oh, and this one…
- Start your goddamn laundry.
- Sort out what you need to pack besides clothing. Pack too much. Weed it down.
- Still too much.
- Search high and low for your camera’s memory card USB that one ex gave you, accept once and for all that you definitely left it at your more recent ex’s and will never see it again. Brood.
- Chastise yourself for being disappointed over the USB. Some people have real problems.
- And you’re about to travel to summer, ffs. You can’t complain about anything.
- Remember your laundry.
- Throw all your clothes in the dryer, underwear and favorite gauzy dress included. Hope you don’t completely ruin them.
- Clean hurriedly.
- Remember to eat.
- Retrieve clothes from dryer, start packing. Realize how little your pack can actually hold.
- Decide that you will take an extra bag and get a new, proper-sized pack when you get to Florida.
- Realize you’ve utterly miscalculated the timing on getting to the bus and are late at the moment.
- Enlist your roommate as a pack mule to carry your extra bag, thus lightening the load and helping you get to the bus ASAP.
- Rush to the train, shins practically bleeding.
- Be informed by your roommate that the A train actually only takes half the time you thought to get to midtown. Rejoice!
- Board A train, find out it is running local. Facepalm.
- In spite of it all, arrive to bus stop only five minutes late. Bus is on time for once, gone.
- Get seat on next bus, sans change charge. Rejoice.
- Get to DC. Realize you cannot carry this extra bag with you the whole trip.
- Enlist roommate who is coincidentally in DC at the same time as you to take it back up to New York.
- Repack.
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