I wouldn’t have thought you had to pay for this, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but it might be worth seeing if you can help her feel compensated in another way
I helped a friend move house 18 months ago. We’ve known each other for more than a decade and helped each other out on numerous occasions, and this was no different. I was probably helping for 10 hours. She had a lot of pictures and art to move. She’d already hired removalists but these things hadn’t gone with them. So I loaded a lot of them into my station wagon laid flat.
Unfortunately, one of the canvases was damaged in transit. I’d actually forgotten about this until I was visiting her recently, when she told me that she got a quote to repair the canvas and that we could split it, paying $1,200 each. I asked her what the canvas was worth and she told me it was beside the point – this canvas belongs to her son, who lives in Germany, and it’s very special to him.
This letter has been edited for clarity and length
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