Where is my Jacket?

So..I have been on my sick bed for about 5 days now. During this time, my sister did a favor for me by taking my nice dress suit jacket to the dry cleaners (I am withholding the name due to pending lawsuit.) They said, "It will be done by the end of the day." So Kris goes at the end of the day to pick up the jacket. He goes to the cleaners and they tell him that they can't find it and it must be "LOST!" Kris calls me to make sure that he is at the right cleaners. I called Candace and assured him that he was. He makes them look again for the jacket. They look and say, "they don't have it." I call Candace again. Then Kris calls Candace. He is at the right place.

So I gave a description of the missing jacket. With the description in hand, they still can't find it. Then I am getting a little worried and inpatient while holding on the other line while Kris watches them look for a third time. Then, they come back to Kris and say that it is in a pile in the back waiting to be dry cleaned. So much for the "Same Day Service" painted on the front window.

Skip to the next morning...I attempted to go back to work. I stopped at the cleaners that is near my work to pickup the elusive, hopefully dry-cleaned jacket (so I could wear it to work.) I went in the store and the front desk girl asked me what I needed it. I explained I was picking up the jacket. She said, "Oh yeah, the one WE lost yesterday. I will be right back." She comes back after 10 minutes and says, "I can't find it!" Que the Seinfeld music. So I ask her again to look for it. She goes back again to the back. Then an older lady comes to the front and asks me what the label of the jacket is. I tell her the label and then she said, "It isn't ready yet" and walks off.

Seriously! How could you know if it is ready or not if you don't know what the jacket looks like in the first place. I left because I had to go change quickly so I could get to work. Long story short...I got sent back home because I was still sick. As I was heading home I went past the cleaners and got upset again about the jacket. So I called my sister and she said she would go by there that afternoon. Finally, my sister was successful in retrieving the jacket from the dry cleaners' grip. So when I came across this news story (see below and this link), I can totally relate to the frustration of the man suing. However, I am not sure if it is worth $65.5M, but if it is then my jacket should get something. Right?

Lawyer files $65.5M suit against dry cleaner
who misplaced his pants

Roy Pearson, a lawyer and low-level judge in the nation's capital, brought his pants to the dry cleaners in May 2005 and asked them to perform $10.50 worth of alterations. The pants disappeared, and the ensuing dispute has resulted in a $65.5 million lawsuit that alleges fraud and negligence.

Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher, the reporter who brought us this gem, quotes from court papers in which Pearson "says he deserves millions for the damages he suffered by not getting his pants back, for his litigation costs, for 'mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort,' for the value of the time he has spent on the lawsuit, for leasing a car every weekend for 10 years and for a replacement suit."

The kicker: A lawyer for the cleaners -- who offered at one point to settle the case for $12,000 -- says he has a pair of gray pants in his closet that belong to Pearson.

“At the end of the day, this is a case about one pair of pants that either was or wasn’t fixed and was or wasn’t lost,” one of two judges on the case said at a recent hearing, according to the DC North newspaper. “All that’s relevant is, ‘Are these pants yours or not?’”