1st November 2021
“ Quick, get in the car there are some free chairs by the road lakeside”.
I was just finishing the first leaf mulching exercise of the autumn.
“Mum saw them as she was driving back from the post office” Kelli was all excited, and was waiting by the truck, like a Battle of Britain pilot ready to into action.
I jumped into the passenger side, and we set off.
About a mile down the road I could see them.
Now to decode what “ lakeside” meant you have to know what the properties are like on the lakeshore. They are often enormous, they have more rooms than are acceptable to the normal human with manicured lawns to die for.
So it would be expected to find an old piece of Chippendale that someone had got fed up with, but no, the sight ahead was nothing that desirable.
There were five chairs, all different and in various stages of disintegration. I would have been embarrassed to place them outside my house.
“ We could sell them as project pieces and get ten bucks a piece”.
“No one with normal eyesight would give you a cent for any of them.” I muttered.
Needless to say we did not get them.
It was time for my hair cut. Kelli put on he glasses, always a good sign, meaning less blood spilt.
It was funny to note that when I was much younger, I could easily tell how much hair was cut because of the piles of dark hair on the ground. Now, because I am so grey it blends with the floor.
Also it doesn’t take half as long.
Another Lifetime to go 