Readers Write: Recliner sale on web helps prove how small the world

The Island Now

This is the Craigslist caper or how many hoops do you have to jump thru to give something away. I have an older recliner that is in decent shape but now declines to recline. 

So I posted on Craig’s List. 

To date there have been some eight people interested. Finally last night under cover of dark an enthusiastic young guy of slight build, imagine Harry Potter without a wand, shows up….. 

Not unlike Hercules struggling with the laacon he managed to get it out of the basement not however without putting a small dent in the door. I followed him as he weaved and bobbed to the front of the house. 

When we reached his car my heart sank. He was driving a sedan. The chair is 32” x 34” x39” so guess what — pushed as he tried the chair refused to enter they car. 

At one point the chair even got stuck in the rear door opening — heart sinks a little deeper. So now, bereft of wizards wand we dejectedly retrace our way back to the man-cave. 

This is a follow up of my last story about my chair.

The story had a happy ending. I got an email with a name and phone number of a person named Marloes who was interested in the chair. 

This is person No. 10 or 11.

I called expecting a man to answer and it was a woman who explained it was a Dutch name. A couple finally arrived here at about 9:30 this evening.

I asked where they were from and she said two hours north of Amsterdam assuming I would not recognize the name of her town. 

I asked the name and she replied Groningen. 

I was dumbfounded because this is the town my father had always told me our relatives has emigrated from centuries(?)ago. 

And almost even stranger I made a point to visit this town on a sabbatical trip to

Europe in 1989! It is a small world indeed and it made my day.

Harry Weymer

Mineola

Editors note: Writer is a retired high school teacher from Ithaca, N.Y.

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