NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/talk/bizarre/43269

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From: [e-mail] (Pope Clifton)
Subject: Furniture
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:20:21 GMT
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Going by furniture, my wife and I are now yuppies, not hippies.

We bought a bed this fall -- a beautiful Finnish-made beechwood queen-
sized platform bed.  It was the first bed that either Karen or I has
ever owned.  For the last 12 years that we have lived together, and all
the time we were living on our own, both of us used to get by with a
mattress or foam futon on the floor.

When we were shopping for the bed, I looked at all the models to see if
they had bedposts, or a convenient place to screw eyebolts in for the
attachment of ropes.  Karen told one of the salesmen that was what I was
checking.  He was very embarassed.  His wife turned bright red.  I was
only slightly embarassed.  The bed we finally bought does not in fact
have any such convenient points.  I'm in no hurry, as for me it's more
of an idle fantasy than a psychological necessity.

Now we own real furniture.  The bed was just the start.  We ordered a
Finnish sofa and chair in black leather and beechwood, which were
delivered right before Xmas.  They are beautiful and comfortable.  The
chair is springy from its laminated wood frame.  They look airy enough
that they do not crowd our incredibly tiny apartment.  Only after we
selected them did I realize that I had carefully picked furniture which
matched in style the "Scandinavian Moderne" furniture my parents had
bought when I was 6 or 7.

The buy I was happiest about, though, was the teak table.  While
visiting furniture stores, we stopped in at one which was on clearance
because the store was moving.  They were selling the used dining table
from their employee lunchroom; we got a big, slightly scuffed and worn
table with extension leaves, mostly solid teak, for $99.  My thrift-
store instincts and values are still alive.

But I fear I am a yuppie, nonetheless, just in time for it to be
completely out of fashion.  Life goes easier countercyclically.

  -- Clifton

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