TORONTO – Local student Jeff Saunders impressed friends at his Beverley St. apartment when he moved a 340 lbs solid oak bunk bed from one side of his room to the
other, sources reported last week.
Saunders had invited four friends over to watch Everybody Loves Raymond reruns,
but interrupted the show to move the massive piece of furniture.
“Jeff got up to move the bunk bed right in the middle of the show,” recalls Eric Schwartz,
one of the friends who witnessed the move.
“It must have been like a thousand pounds or something. He’s just crazy like that.”
Saunders refused all offers of assistance made by his friends. Cindy Schaeffer, who was also on hand for the move, was unimpressed by Saunders’ obvious ploy to get attention.
“He’s just so pathetic,” said Schaeffer. “He invites all of us over for some Raymond, and
then starts moving furniture around. He was like ‘Oh, I forgot, I have to move this bunk bed
guys.’ He obviously called us over just so he could show off.”
Friends of Saunders say this is not the first time he has tried to move furniture
alone.
Jason Perrin, long time friend and teammate of Saunders’ on the U of T Jenga team, recalls: “One time back in high school we were helping his cousin move, and Jeff insisted on moving this couch by himself. He got about five steps and his back gave out and he fell down. He actually accused me of punching him in the back. He thought I was trying to embarrass him in front of his family.”
Friends say Saunders moved all his furniture to his current apartment by himself in a span
of three days.
“It really only should have taken a few hours,” Perrin said. “But he didn’t want our help. He
didn’t even want to use the elevator, and it was like five stories up. I tried to hold a door open for him, but he wouldn’t have any of that either. He yelled ‘Get out of here! This is man’s work!’ I don’t think I want to be his friend anymore.”
When asked why he refuses to hire movers or ask for help from friends when moving heavy objects, he replied: “Because I’m not a little girl. I don’t need movers. Look, I once carried an entire dining room set on my back for three miles from Ikea to my apartment, okay? I’d like to
see you do that. You probably couldn’t even carry one chair that distance.”
