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The Guardian - Life & Style • Feb. 15, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
The kindness of strangers: my new couch was stranded outside – then a burly gym guy helped move it upstairs
I was frantic – I had to get the couch inside before my parents arrived. Out of desperation, I drove to a nearby gym Read more in the kindness of strangers series I’d bought a nice new couch after my labrador chewed through the first one.
But I didn’t put it in my apartment straight away. My plan was to swap the old couch for the new one right before my parents came to visit from overseas, so the dog wouldn’t have a chance to destroy it before their arrival.
My apartment was upstairs and the new couch was in storage on the ground floor, so I hired removalists to swap the two couches the day my parents arrived. They took the tattered old couch down – but didn’t carry the new one up.
But I didn’t put it in my apartment straight away. My plan was to swap the old couch for the new one right before my parents came to visit from overseas, so the dog wouldn’t have a chance to destroy it before their arrival.
My apartment was upstairs and the new couch was in storage on the ground floor, so I hired removalists to swap the two couches the day my parents arrived. They took the tattered old couch down – but didn’t carry the new one up.
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