On Chairs

"You have so many chairs!" commented one visitor who came to the house one day. True enough, we really have so many chairs at home, good for sixty persons to all sit comfortably at the same time. Aside from that we have scattered stools and benches around.

My wife has an extraordinary predilection to chairs, the reason why we have different sizes and shapes of chairs in every nook and corner of our dwelling place, from the attic to the laundry area.

Come to think of it, chairs are the only household items that formally offer the longest comfort and support to all and sundry the whole day long, whatever you are doing. Without a place to sit on, watching T.V. or plain waiting could be purgatory; conversations would be tiresome; eating would be messy; reading would be boring and life as a whole would be a lot more uninteresting.

Some sofas are convertible to beds and even those that are not are also used as beds. Small upside-down chair could serve as a pillow to support the aching back or could serve as a leg holder in doing a 'Tredelenberg' position during an emergency. Hanging chairs are good hammocks for children of busy parents. Leaning chair is a comfortable psychiatric couch.

As the song goes..."A chair is not a chair unless someone is sitting there". An empty chair depicts absence. The more there are chairs the more people are expected to sit there. According to the saying..."The more the merrier".