Should I Have Gone into Marketing?

Best Self Storage has been taken over by a national chain, and is now Extra Space Storage. Our family is mourning the loss of BSS. It was a family run business for about eight years. It was my home for four years. Our family, especially my parents, put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building and running BSS. When we moved to our new house three years ago, my brother took over and moved his family into the apartment above the office. I have many cherished memories of sitting in the office with my brother, mom, and dad.

Anyway, it’s time to start a new chapter in our books of life. A chapter which, sadly, does not include BSS. There will be no more Best Self Storage track and field team. No more stories about tenants and their antics. No more 2 AM calls from Mountain alarm. No more fire trucks rolling because of some dust in a smoke detector. No more over locks, ballast replacement, bioswale, etc.

In the process of changing hands. The ESS people were getting rid of everything BSS. They replaced the cute squirrel rug with a plain black rug. Juliet actually found the rug rolled up in the dumpster.

The pass along cards were immediately removed from the desk which was their home for many years. Anyway, there were some signs that I had made up back when we were still living at BSS. I had forgotten how cool they were :-). Thankfully, somebody recovered them before ESS threw them in the dumpster.

Perhaps I missed my calling in life. You be the judge.

To drum up business, I had the idea to have someone dress up in a gorilla suit and dance around while holding these signs:

RIP BSS.

That's my two cents.