new furniture

i'm still rubbing my eyes. it happened so fast.

mary asked me to help her take a coffee table to my secret closet, a consignment furniture shop in hillsborough. we hauled the table into the store, and after she concluded her business we started pawing through their stuff. i spied a brand-new couch (so brand-new that the sofa bed mattress was still wrapped in plastic) on the sidewalk out front, and a couple of really nice, slightly modern, ultra-comfortable side chairs in the back room.

i honestly wasn't prepared at all to shop for myself. i had never been to this store, and had no idea of the wealth and quality of the stuff they had on consignment. i just came along to help mary lift her coffee table. but that couch on the sidewalk kept niggling at my brain, so i thought i should at least get ray to come sit in it to see if he liked it, too.

so mary and i drove all the way back to durham, got ray, then came back to the store (about 40 minutes round trip). ray liked the couch and loved the chairs. the folks to run the store said if we took them all today they would cut us a deal. oh, and their delivery guys were on the way back to the store, so if we wanted to, we could have them drive all three pieces to our house now for just $50 more.

done and done.

so, within 2 hours of showing up at the store i had bought 3 pieces of furniture and was sitting on them in my living room.

bizarre.

Posted by xta at March 20, 2005 12:07 PM | TrackBack