Writing prompt #1 asked me to write about an object in the room without looking at it.
I don't believe in wasting things. When the wheels on the computer chair broke a while back, I noticed I could take the bottom part off, the part with the wheels and the legs, and end up with a perfectly good chair, if you consider legs on chairs to be unnecessary.
And the legs are unnecessary. Bean bag chairs don't have legs, now do they?
You sit in the chair on the floor and watch TV or read or fiddle on the computer, and you put your legs out on the floor in front of you like a built-in leg rest. You can even lean back, rest your arms on the armrests. It's actually even pretty comfortable. Not as comfortable as a recliner or a couch, but better than those chairs they have at the kid's schools where they're just little plastic stools up attached by metal rods to the tables on which you're supposed to eat.
Those are chairs too, and they don't have legs, or rather, they don't have their own legs, sharing the support with the table.
So, it makes me wonder, what makes a chair a chair?
What makes a good time a good time?
What makes a man a man?
Maybe less than we think. Maybe, if we all put some imagination into it, we wouldn't waste so many people either.
Copyright 2012. Timothy H. Ruppel. All rights reserved.
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