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_lyre_qweku_
Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 36
Location: Australy
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: What should I have done? |
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| Obviously, this situation is very old, but just popped back into my head recently as being filed in my brain under: I didn't really know how to handle that situation.About 15 years ago, a friend of my parents passed away, and my mother (a recent widow) and I made lots of food to take over to the surviving adult daughter and used my brand new Corningware dishes that I had gotten for a wedding present. I never received a phone call even after I had asked my mother several times to ask about the dishes. My mother kept promising me I would get them back but I never did. Obviously, it's too late to do anything about it now, as it's been 15 years, and nowadays, I wouldn't have a problem with just calling and getting my dishes back, but I'm wondering whose responsibility it should have been to get my dishes back. I barely knew the woman who passed or her family. I just helped Mom prepare food for the family and regret never having my dishes back.Obviously, this is not an issue that keeps me awake at night. I'm just a little bummed every holiday when I could be serving my family from my favorite serving dishes, and I don't have them anymore. I'm at a point financially where I could afford to replace them, and I have asked my family every year to help me replace the set, but unfortunately the pattern is out of stock. |
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_tolre_pulku_
Joined: 27 Apr 2007
Posts: 40
Location: Stafford
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:38 am Post subject: What should I have done? |
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| Well like you said you are not afraid to ask for your dishes so ask for them already, and you are the one responsible for your own stuff remember you are the one who paid for them. |
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_pisko_koli_
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Posts: 50
Location: Johannesburg
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: What should I have done? |
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| I guess it's 1 of those misfortunes that happen.The family that you and your mother helped properly didn't even know whose dishes they belong to,and quite honestly didn't care at that period of time due to grief.I guess maybe it would of been your responsibility to call in maybe a few days or a week after and just say that you left your dishes behind. |
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_raty_iniqwe_
Joined: 08 Jun 2007
Posts: 37
Location: Germany
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: What should I have done? |
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| It was your mother's responsibility to get your dishes back. She should have called first and volunteered to pick them up and if the family blew her off then she should have just shown up at their house and asked for them. If they weren't home then she should have gone over as many times as it took to get them back. I guess you could have hounded your mother a little more to get your dishes back, maybe explaining to her that they meant a lot to you being a wedding gift and all. Since your mother didn't follow through with retrieving your things then I guess you should have gone over there yourself. I don't feel like it was your responsibility though, but if your mother wouldn't do it and you really wanted your dishes back there would be no other choice. Too bad the family kept them but dishes were probably the last thing on their minds at the time. |
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