With just days to go until Valentine's Day, a stay-at-home dad has named himself a "dead husband walking" after he put $1,000 worth of his wife's clothing into a recycling bag that his son later threw out by accident, according to the New York Post.
Michael Farrah, 48, took to the streets to try to find the clothes, posting fliers throughout his neighborhood, DNAinfo reported.
"Wife's dry cleaning went out with the recycling," he wrote on the fliers in large letters. "Somebody picked it up other than sanitation. Reward given. Please contact dead husband walking."
He told the New York Post he put his wife's two dresses, a scarf, a skirt and a pair of pants into a plastic bag bound for the dry cleaners.
“Unfortunately, he put that bag a little too close to the bags meant for recycling -- and his 9-year-old son, Finn, saw it and apparently tried to be helpful,” the paper reported.
“I was heartbroken,” he told the New York Post. “I was going through piles and piles of dirty bottles. I looked through them all. I even went to the corner and looked in the garbage can.”
The family is offering a $200 reward to anyone who can bring back the clothing.
Despite the situation, Farrah still decided to look on the bright side, telling the New York Post that with Valentine's Day just around the corner, he knows exactly what to get his wife, Maya Draisin, the associate publisher of Wired magazine.
“It gives me an opportunity to buy her clothes,” he said.
