The Choice
I need to get a wooden chair to hack up and make not look like a chair. I mean I have on that I can use but it is not a very interesting one, quite dull actually. I have searched a few places and have come up with nothing better. I have my mom and sister suggesting places to go look for cheap chairs. I even got offered someone’s extra chair they were not going to use. I checked it out but did not get the impression that I had to have it. It looked like your typical kitchen chair. I told her I would get back to her about it.
After that meeting, I ventured to the local Goodwill just to see if my some strange reason they might have one. I had to go in the room marked “Bargain Bin”, where everything was in huge piles you had to rummage through and $0.50 except of course the furniture. I found 3 chairs, which surprised me. One was out immediately because it was too plain. The other 2 I thought quite a while about going back and forth between them. One was light and decorative; the other was big and burly. As I was looking at the heavy mother fuckin one I was considering getting both but wondered what I would do with the chair I did not use, so I decided on just the small light one. I turned around to find a lady sitting in it. I started cursing her out in my head. Could she not see that I had just been looking at it and was still standing next to it? She got up a few minutes later and I immediately swooped in to take it, pay my $5 and get out.
I bring it home and show it too my mom, who agrees that it is a good chair to use. On a whim that it may be an antique she flipped it over to look at the bottom. And to both our astonishment there is a stamp in printed in the wood. It says: “S. Bert Bros Inc, 1867, Gardner, Mass.” This leads to the question of it’s possible worth being as how it could either be from slightly after the time of the Civil War or that is the year the company was founded. I could not find the specific one exactly, but to ones I did find, range from $50 to $200, approximately I could be wrong.
I am now left with a choice. A) Find a new chair and try to sell this one at some point to make some money, which I could use right now or B) Use the chair, possibly destroying an antique worth something just for the sake of art, showing that expression is more important than any amount of money.
Honestly at this point, I am leaning toward the later chose unless I can find a different by Monday, because well how often do you get to destroy a piece of history/nostalgia with your own hands.
Okay that was a lot longer than I wanted it to be and this is not helping.
After that meeting, I ventured to the local Goodwill just to see if my some strange reason they might have one. I had to go in the room marked “Bargain Bin”, where everything was in huge piles you had to rummage through and $0.50 except of course the furniture. I found 3 chairs, which surprised me. One was out immediately because it was too plain. The other 2 I thought quite a while about going back and forth between them. One was light and decorative; the other was big and burly. As I was looking at the heavy mother fuckin one I was considering getting both but wondered what I would do with the chair I did not use, so I decided on just the small light one. I turned around to find a lady sitting in it. I started cursing her out in my head. Could she not see that I had just been looking at it and was still standing next to it? She got up a few minutes later and I immediately swooped in to take it, pay my $5 and get out.
I bring it home and show it too my mom, who agrees that it is a good chair to use. On a whim that it may be an antique she flipped it over to look at the bottom. And to both our astonishment there is a stamp in printed in the wood. It says: “S. Bert Bros Inc, 1867, Gardner, Mass.” This leads to the question of it’s possible worth being as how it could either be from slightly after the time of the Civil War or that is the year the company was founded. I could not find the specific one exactly, but to ones I did find, range from $50 to $200, approximately I could be wrong.
I am now left with a choice. A) Find a new chair and try to sell this one at some point to make some money, which I could use right now or B) Use the chair, possibly destroying an antique worth something just for the sake of art, showing that expression is more important than any amount of money.
Honestly at this point, I am leaning toward the later chose unless I can find a different by Monday, because well how often do you get to destroy a piece of history/nostalgia with your own hands.
Okay that was a lot longer than I wanted it to be and this is not helping.
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