Elsewhere, I had made a post talking about buying new chairs. Today I am going to pick up one of those chairs and the other I think I’m going to hold off on until a major sale, Labor Day I think is the next one. But my decision to buy the first chair was more than just, it’s a good chair or it’s a good price. I felt there was something else that was prompting me to buy that chair there.
One of my friends is very superstitious, not in a bad way, but more in a way of seeing signs in a lot of things that normally I wouldn’t even give a second thought about. I feel she would understand this. When I first went to the store, I wanted an office chair. That term probably conjures up a very specific image in your head and that’s what I was looking for, whether it be a high-back or a low-back version. At sometime shortly after I entered the store, I had the thought of, did it have to be an office chair? Because for whatever reason, I remembered that when I was young and poor, I never had an office chair; I had used dining chairs. I have a very faint memory of buying two chairs from the oddball/clearance section of a furniture store and those chairs lasted a long time and eventually disintegrated.
As you would expect, I was greeted at the door by a salesperson who asked me what I was looking for and I said I wanted to see everything, but was looking for a desk chair. She let me go off but frequently kept checking up on me. At one point I told I didn’t have to have an office chair, it might be fine to have a dining chair. Then I commented that some of the desks in the showroom seemed to be using dining chairs. And then we passed by her desk and this was her chair.
I am very convinced that is the exact same chair I was using at my desk 30 years ago. The color is darker, but everything else is the same. The chair even still had its original product label hanging on it. What a nostalgia trip.
Some people might just say that’s a coincidence. Ok. It’s also a coincidence that there was a singleton chair in the farthest corner of their clearance section with no matching pieces. Not a set of chairs or a pair of chairs, just one. And I was looking for one chair. Sure, that’s entirely likely. Well, yeah, I guess it is.
People want to attach more meaning to things than may be warranted. After all, aren’t we seeing the greatest mass delusion in history playing out right now? But maybe having some insight and recognition can open you up to new possibilities. Maybe if I hadn’t noticed her desk chair I wouldn’t have been inspired to search every corner of the building. Who knows?
I just went looking. I found it. Yes. That is the same chair. Slightly different frame, but yes.
And surprisingly or not, the new chair is going to be in the same function, the desk chair for my recording studio.
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