My somewhat good day just broke apart in front of, me, Literally

Here's what happened. I got a call earlier today from a family friend asking if I want to make a few quick bucks. Which is pretty normal of him to ask me about. So I figured sure, why not. So I said yes.

Well about 30 minutes ago. He came by and picked me up. Well apparently we were going to help move a antique dresser from one of the local antique stores to the costumers truck.

We get there, It's a beautiful dresser with huge mirror and 2 tier marble top. So we carefully start taking the dresser a part. So that we can get ready to move. Them we moved the Mirror to the truck

Then came the marble top. This top had a issue already so we had to be careful on how we moved it. Well we get to the truck. So We are trying to figure out what would be the safest way for this thing to travel. So we tried to put it on it's backside so we could fit it in the back seat of the trucks cab. Thats where things went to pot quickly. My friend and I tilted the top back. When all of the sudden, the top failed and basically fell off. Shattering the smaller second top and the back. The wings were ok.

Well now the the mother of the daughter who bought it is upset and sad. And the antique store owner is furious. After some thinking, we moved the dressers bottom to the truck.

Then our family's friend was talking to the owner. (Which you could tell was getting madder by the minute.) At one point she said, that (top) is worth more than anything I was ever to pay you.

With the fear of possible legal action being taken because of this. I asked, "Is there a possibility of a lawsuit being incurred because of this?". She nodded her head very sternly and said yes.

Then she basically told us to leave before she does something drastic.



So now, I didn't get paid (obviously) by the antique store owner. And now I'm looking at the possibility of a lawsuit formed against me and our family's friend out of this incident.

This post has been edited by nightwheel on Nov 4 2009, 05:36 PM

That stinks.

Why didnt the shop owner wrap it in bubble wrap before you took it?

We were going to wrap it in a blanket when we got it to the car. But as you can see, that didn't happen.

I forgot to add the main marble surface is ok also. And that it's still at the antique store. To be picked up tomorrow. (And we aren't the ones moving it into the truck tomorrow either.)

This post has been edited by nightwheel on Nov 4 2009, 05:43 PM

isn't that kind of the risk you take when you don't hire professionals

A blanket wouldnt work well imo.

By the way, what kind of cheap marble was the top made of? Marble isnt supposed to shatter that easily...

or was it used?

Wel yes, but our family friend is very well trusted here in out small town. And almost everyone comes to him with some kind of job or something that needs to be fixed.

Antique, I'm figuring the dresser was used.

Also, the top was held together by wooden pegs. So it's was pretty old.

This post has been edited by nightwheel on Nov 4 2009, 05:46 PM

people going to the government to solve their problems as usual


wonder why they complain about Obamas health care plan haha

thats not literal, thats a metaphor

I think he means that the thing that made his day good broke apart in front of him.


Since it kind of did....

Good lord I hope she doesn't decide to be a *****. Good luck bro.

Don't act intimidated by her threats to sue. That shows her that you are actually afraid of being sued. If I was given a threat of being sued, I'd sue her for threatening me, because technically threatening to sue is a threat.
I'm also tired of people taking old worn out crap in their attics that wouldn't value any more than a couple of bucks and calling it "antique" and now it's suddenly of some value.

I'm pretty sure that you can't sue somebody for saying that they'll sue you.

the way she did it was threatening, etc

You can't sue someone for just any kind of threat.

YOUR HONOR, HE THREATENED TO GIVE ME $5. I'D LIKE TO SUE HIM.


If she threatened to do something ILLEGAL, it might make sense, but she threatened to do something perfectly legal. There's nothing you can do about that.

Lawsuit? What the hell? Dude, it was an accident. If anything, SHE didn't take very good care of that dresser if it just failed like that.

Accidents don't mean jack SQUAT when it comes to lawsuits.

Anyway, stuff happens. They didn't hire a professional so they can't really complain, trusted individual or not. Really, even if they hired a professional they should always expect something like this to happen.

Sucks, bro.

did she have it insured when she bought it

because really people stop giving a **** about sentimental value and antiques when they get money out of it