After my recent debacle at the office supply store I was reluctant to try looking for another chair quite yet. But fate shone its happy face on me and I am now the proud owner of a rather snazzy new chair.
Well, new to me at least … driving through a friend’s neighborhood last week I saw a huge garage sale outside a rather nice looking house. I’m a sucker for garage sales because I always end up with armfuls of books, and this one was no exception … I scored an excellent quality hardcover set of the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin.
Not familiar with them? Well, it has been quite a while since they were published, so I’m not completely surprised that they’re not well-known now, but they’re a must-read. I’ll return to them in a future post I think, since I have more to say about them.
The sale was a double whammy for me, since the books were piled on a rather nice desk chair. I assumed it was just a convenient place to display the books since it seemed to be in excellent shape, but the woman whose sale it was explained that the chair was available too. It seems that after a recent divorce she was redoing her house, and planned to change her ex-husband’s office into an exercise room.
She offered me an excellent price on this burgundy leather-covered chair, and even made my day by glancing at me and saying “This should be pretty comfortable for you … you’re a well-built guy like my ex, and he said it was the best chair he ever had!”
I’m sitting in my new purchase as I type now, and I can already feel my writing improving, my use of metaphor sharpening … well, even if I don’t really feel any of that, my back is aching much less since I put my trusty old stool away. Score!