My New Chair

                                               

I spend a lot of time sitting at a desk writing, paying bills, Facebooking and occasionally sleeping. Over the last year or so I have developed more back problems and sitting in my old desk chair for long periods of time is torture. Amber surprised me the other day and ordered me a new desk chair. It's one of those fancy lumbar support, I'm smarter than you chairs. It was delivered in a smallish box. My first thought, "There is no way in hell that chair would fit in that little ol' box!"

Well, we opened the box and sure enough the chair was there, in about ten thousand pieces. My first thought was, "Crap!" Then Amber said she would help me with the following conditions: No cussing, no yelling, no throwing tools and no partaking in alcoholic beverages. For some reason, I agreed. We began the task with me giving Amber a kiss and telling her thank you (I thought it may prove to be helpful later).

About an hour later, with sweat rolling down my face and arms (yes we were working inside the air conditioned house), suffering with a headache and a trickle or two of blood on my hands (I take blood thinners), I took a deep breath and sat down in the finished chair. It was great! In an attempt to put the last hour behind us, I turned to Amber, told her thank you for the chair and helping me put it together and that it was the most comfortable chair I had ever sat in.

There was a painfully long period of silence and then finally, as she walked out the door, Amber said, " Well, I'm glad you're so tickled with your chair, because as far as I'm concerned, you will be sleeping in it for a while!"