Friday, October 16, 2015

my old rocking chair

On my moving day four weeks ago the movers managed to move all of my possessions in tact except for two of the oldest - a picture that has been in the family since I was about five and the rocking chair in which my mother rocked me when I was a baby and in which I rocked my babies and my grandbabies. So you could say items of great sentimental value. I didn't discover that the glass had been broken out of the picture until two weeks after the move, too late to make a claim, so I took it to Frame Art this week and ordered new mat and glass, only this time I'm going with picture quality plexiglass. So the picture is taken care of. Now about the rocker, After the move, when the damage was discovered, the movers took the rocker with them, explaining that they would either be able to repair it or to make a financial adjustment.  I told them, and retold them in repeated follow-up conversations, that if they couldn't fix it I want it back. Today I got a call from a furniture repair company saying they had been contacted by the movers to repair my rocker and when could they come pick it up. I told the nice lady on the phone that the moving company still has my rocking chair and she said she would contact them.  Now I'm wondering if and when I'll ever see that old chair again.

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  1. Co-incidentally, one of the few damage items we had in our move from The Netherlands to Fort Wayne was our very old rocking chair. One of the rockers was broken. Fortunately they repaired it so we couldn't tell it was damaged! We hope you have the same good fortune!

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