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Dr. Feelgood
There are only a handful of companies to which I am deeply loyal: Apple, Jeep (don't laugh, I loved my Jeep), Canada Dry (or whatever conglomerate owns them now). But I'm adding one to the list: Dr. Sofa.
Sunday. We're moving across the river to New Jersey. Taking stuff out of a five-story walkup takes a little longer than expected, then transit time, and then the bigger items are saved until the end ... so basically we don't find
out until about 5 p.m., in pouring rain, that the couch and box spring of our bed are too big to make it up two stories in our new building.
It's starting to look like a random passerby is about to inherit a leather fold out couch, when one of the movers suggests we call this only-in-New-York company called Dr. Sofa.
These guys dispatch an emergency on-call team (seriously) who arrive in about two hours. And they proceed to hack our furniture to pieces (seriously).
That's Ramon (with Michael, pictured) cutting off a piece of the box spring with an electric saw. Lyn couldn't even watch, she just listened from the apartment, which I think would be more disturbing.
Then Ramon took the leather off one side of the couch and removed an arm. "I feel like I'm skinning a cow," he said. "You're like freakin' Sarah Palin," I agreed.
The most amazing part, however, is once they got them upstairs, they put them back together -- and you can't see any difference. They bolted the wood in the box spring, reattached the arm to the sofa and re-skinned the couch. It was something to behold. I'm thinking of moving into a building with even smaller hallways to see what else they can do.
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