Ancestors

Written by Jenny Fx on 2024-12-28 at 14:58

I'm taking my sewing machine on a subway ride to Times Square to see Uncle Jimmy Sewing Machine Extrordinaire whose shop is nearby. I've roped in a young lad to carry it for me. Like a proper Christmas family outing. 😀

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Written by Jenny Fx on 2024-12-28 at 16:22

Jimmy's address was a doorman building but the doorman did not tell us what floor to get off the elevator. Instead, he brought us out and around to a service entrance, through a kitchen, and pointed down some dark basement stairs. 'You'll find Jimmy down there,' he said. We followed a trail of sewing machines through the ages and creepy dressmaker dummies, and found, quite as you'd expect at the beginning of a fantasy movie, a little old man with glasses hunched over a work table.

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Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-01-29 at 15:48

I called Jimmy again. He's had my machine for 31 days now. He can't find it. I'm going back to the basement to help look for it.

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Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-01-29 at 18:21

It was HOT in the basement. I looked through three rooms that all kind of looked like this.

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Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-01-29 at 18:22

I wasn't finding it. Then he led me to.a bathroom, also lined with sewing machines. And there it was, on the floor of the bathroom, still in the Hello Fresh bag, still with my name and number on it. He'll work on it on Friday he says.

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Toot

Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-02-01 at 15:55

Jimmy called! My machine is ready. I've to go pick it up today.

He did not say how much I owe him. I should probably get some cash.

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Descendants

Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-02-01 at 20:23

Got the machine. $90. He said it's all fixed and guaranteed if I have any more problems. There's a sewing sample on it. Looks good.

@FoxeinSocks came with me to carry it.

Great. Can't wait to try it.

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Written by Jenny Fx on 2025-02-01 at 20:26

But...then as we were leaving and he has talking about the benefits of old machines and saying the plastic ones don't last he said:

'Let's hope manufacturing is making a comeback now. Everything is going to be great again.'

And @FoxeinSocks and I looked at each other and back at him trying to keep our jaws from hanging open and all I could think was 'Oh Jimmy, I hope your papers are in order.'

We just said goodbye.

Sigh.

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