Zhanna Yakubova

“You could not see my face because I was just covered in boxes”

I’m not sure what’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever carried, but probably that’s got to be my dog when I was a child. I used to have a Bernese mountain dog, and I’m pretty sure she would weigh the same as me. I was, I don’t know how much, but I was probably 12 years old when we got her. She was huge and she was really loving, so I would always carry her. But I love carrying things because it made me feel really strong. Like whenever I go to the grocery store, I always get a lot of food, and then I always get it from the car in one, in one go, like I never come back.

One time actually, I got a bunch of Amazon packages when I moved to my apartment, so I had to get a lot of furniture for cheap. So I got it from Amazon and actually all the packages came at the same time and sometimes they bring them right to the second floor where I stay, um, but when I ordered the heaviest stuff, they left it on the ground floor by the mail room. So I had to carry all probably eight boxes by myself to the second floor, which was actually probably the third because the ground floor doesn’t count. And I could have came back for the — half of the packages, but I ended up carrying all of them stacked on top of each other, and I actually felt like a cartoon character because it’s a very common scene when somebody’s carrying too many things on top of each other and it gets — like, you could not see my face because I was just covered in boxes, and I was dropping them on the way to the third floor, but I was just so committed to do it in one go. I’m not sure why I’d rather do that than come back, maybe — yeah, I don’t know how it’s easier. But that’s, that was really heavy, I remember. So maybe yeah, the heaviest thing I’ve ever carried would be my dog and the eight Amazon packages.