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I'm so hurt . . .
Last month I went home (4 hrs north of here) and my cousin's wife gave me my Nana's old sewing machine and table. I was really excited to have it. I planned on stripping it, refinishing it, and then replacing her old machine with my own. Since I want to become a better seamstress, this was a great gift.
R was annoyed with me bringing it home because I put it in the garage. I didn't want to bring it in the house just to have to move it again to refinish it. I haven't had time to work on it--I work almost 50 hours a week right now and want to spend any available seconds with Bebe--but I told him after the 20th of this month things would calm down and I could work on it.
Last week I noticed one of the legs on the table was slightly broken. I showed it to R, who really didn't care. I was crying, so he offered to try to fix it . . . to which I replied I would take it to a furniture repair instead. Whatever. I know because the table was near the trashcans that R probably hit it with a can because he is really careless.
Tonight I come home . . . aaaaannnnnddddd, the table is completely on the fricking floor with one whole leg broken. Not even the one that was originally broken. I'm super pissed now because he has to have done this . . . he did it getting the cans out . . and had he taken the time to be just a little more careful this wouldn't happen.
I know it doesn't mean anything to him, but it really crushed me. This was something useful and sentimental to me that he completely disrespected and broke. I'm so glad R is working tonight . . . I don't even want to see him right now.
Re: I'm so hurt . . .
You have every right to be angry, he really should've tried a little harder to realize how much it meant to you, not like it was some junk you randomly brought home from a yard sale or something, it was very sentimental to you.
He needs to at least apologize and do something nice for you, or if your anything like me then he'll know to stay away from you while you are mad and give you some time to "cool off".
Will he be there tomorrow? I got your back you know! Haha
The worst part is that he gets in a hurry and in a bad mood and then takes it out on things in his way . . . so I feel bad for him on the one hand, but the other hand wants to slap him for being a turkey.
Oh well . . . I know how to get through to him! Its going to cost a pretty penny to get it repaired . . . I'll hit him in the wallet!
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How aggravating! I mean, I'm clumsy and I break stuff, but if it were something of DH's, especially something that belonged to his grandparent (we have A LOT of it...that's another story) I would at least call him and tell him if something happened to it. There's no way it happened and R didn't realize it. He's just as much of a bum for not saying anything.
Hit his wallet hard, make the repairs and he can get something special for you on top of it!
Agreed. That really sucks...how could he be so careless? I hope he apologizes and makes every effort to get it fixed.
Totally! Keep us updated ... I would get really sentimental about that too.
He apologized although he says he didn't realize he hit the table . . . oh well. I found a guy an hour away who does furniture repairs on antiques, so I'll be taking it out there. I know my cousins (who had it for almost 3 years in their garage) didn't take care of it, so who knows how beat up it was really. The break isn't even, the wood is dark and broke off irregular so I think there were some issues before R helped it along.
Either way, its going to be probably $300 minimum to repair this. I KNOW that will get through to him!