Anyone else hate furniture?

[Miss K]

Aesthetically speaking, I love furniture. ADHD-wise, not so much. (Add to that short stature, also a problem in a world full of furniture made to fit people who are far larger than me.)

I wasn't so much "fidgety"...as I was just perpetually uncomfortable, and constantly having to adjust my posture or my my position to find a comfy way to sit in class, that was still acceptable to the teacher. Okay yeah, I was fidgety, but I worked REALLY hard to hide it. Add to that the overhead fluorescent light, which was misery inducing and distracting...ugh, the whole school day was uncomfortable. I was in heaven in high school, with the math teacher who would turn the lights off and let us sit however we wanted as long as we weren't disturbing anyone. Looking back, I would bet money that he was an ADHDer...Mr. Church was fantastic, but he was NOT normal.

Even as a grownup I find myself having to remind myself not to curl up like a squirrel in chairs in waiting rooms, not put feet on chairs to tuck them under me, not sit on backs of chairs, or arms of chairs and sofas, and I must often stifle the urge to simply sit on the floor or move furniture around to "make it my own".

I think it's related to my fidgety-ness. I'm uncomfortable too, and that makes me even more fidgety. Why don't they make furniture that is less annoying to the fidgety mind!

Seriously, I'm 34 and I interact with furniture like I'm 8. But I don't like it and I never have. The only place I'm really comfortable is on my couch in a big blanket. Or, in my awesome special bed that is extra plush, which is perfect for a tiny person like myself.

So who else hates furniture? Or has other distractions that the "regular world" requires you to endure...

[Gary]

I agree. How the heck do the muggles in school sit in those hideous plastic torture seats for an hour?

University is worse because of those stupid built-in fold-down desk things that are never large enough for my arm and my notebook and never small enough to actually allow me to get in and out of the seat comfortably.

Don't even get me started on the moron who invented theatre seats with shared arm rests that have hard plastic cup holders moulded into them!

I once shared an office with a hippie dude and we were told we could furnish it however we liked. I voted for bean bag chairs but Bob wanted those other hideous torture devices, the kneeling chair. If you haven't seen them they are this weird thing with two cushions. You perch your posterior on one and kneel on the other. Bob thought they were wonderful and comfy. I lasted about two minutes in one. The whole thing was made moot when management decided we needed to have "real" furniture so clients wouldn't think we were weird.

I just had this "Far Side" mental picture of people in the waiting room of an ADHD doctor: One lying on the carpet under the legs of several chairs, another lying on the seat with his legs over the back, one hanging by his boots from the coat rack and one racing around in a hamster wheel. Now that's a waiting room!

[Miss K]

HAHAHAHA....

Oh that kneeling chair sounds like hell. What is wrong with people! Even my therapist has uncomfortable chairs. She makes up for it with these DELICIOUS mints that she always has in her office.

[Gary]

I found a picture of one of these Inquisitional devices:
http://www.bluehen.com/tempurpedic-deluxe-kneeling-chair-stock-2009...

Mints are good but I prefer my chiropractor's jelly beans. I pick out the black ones. I've trained the receptionist not to buy fancy designer beans in which black could be mint spumoni mocha or some other weird flavour instead of yummy licorice.

[Miss K]

Oh yeah...that's some first class evil looking furniture!

Mint spumoni mocha sounds...so disgusting....haha.........

[Bryan Hutchinson]

YIKES!!!

[Gary]

Candy flavours are sometimes a Great Mystery.

Thrills gum, which tastes like soap. Honestly. Some people really like it.

What the heck flavour are the white Rockets? Not lemon -- those are the yellow ones. After 50 years of eating them I still don't know.

Purple flavoured Kool-Aid. I know it's supposed to be grape but really, have you ever tasted a grape like that? Face it, it's purple flavoured.

Those fancy designer jelly beans with 50 flavours or whatever. Some of which remind me of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. To quote Dumbledore "alas... earwax."

Hence the (fortunately fictitious) mint spumoni mocha.

[NerdyMommy]

Have you ever noticed that the fancy designer jelly beans (Jelly Belly, btw), look exactly like the Bertie Bott's ones? To the point where, if you wanted to be really devilish, you could take the Bertie Bott's ones that you picked up in NYC - the earwax, the vomit, the grass, etc... and mix them in with the fancy designer ones, and then give them to your kids, and wait for the reaction. Priceless!

.....Not that I know this from personal experience, of course. I'm not the least bit devilish.

[Miss K]

Ouch...you need to change you name to "MeanMommy"!

[Bryan Hutchinson]

You're not devilish? Tell all now... lol

[Bryan Hutchinson]

I am not the biggest fan of furniture either, the issue with me is that my taste changes too frequently - what I like one year isn't what I am going to like next year, but I always insist on spending way too much money on such outstanding pieces of furniture! It drives me crazy after the fact. I am currently writing from a desk "I had to have" I spent so much money on it that I can't bear to part with it, but it's from a past 'what I liked' and not what I like now and it doesn't even serve the purposes I originally purchased it for. What I want... will change soon, so I will stick with it :-)

[Gary]

I feel your pain, bro.
When we first started to think about building a house I liked Tudor. Real Tudor, as in National Trust houses from the 1500s.
Then I entered my Japanese phase. Do you have any idea how much tatami costs?
We've settled on Victorian. Our architect was a fan of Charmed so he knew exactly which house we wanted. At least Victorian is interesting, unlike modern brushed chrome stuff.

[Miss K]

You two are hilaaarious with your furniture obsession. I do not have the income to even let me get myself into those types of problems. My boyfriend and I were joking recently that all of the furniture in our apartment combined is probably worth the same amount as our mattress set. It's the only item I am usually willing to splurge on because not getting good sleep is BAD. However, lest we sound like we're living in a cardboard box, I am a STELLAR free or extremely low cost furniture salvager, so we have some really unique items...fun, eclectic, shabby chic. Yeah. Good times. My fave right now is a chaise that I picked up from a nice lady who was putting it out on the curb. I know you have to be careful with some kinds of furniture because BEDBUGS will travel on discarded furniture and are hard to get rid of (a problem in our area these days), so I'm very selective nows, but still find good stuff. Another great piece...a 1940s maple table from my grandmother...and the dining room table was once a law office conference table...haha...free when my old boss closed the office.

Anyway...I'm sitting here right now at desk that comes up to my chest...in a chair made for a person twice my size...OH HEY...I JUST FOUND THE SWITCH TO MAKE THE CHAIR HIGHER! Stupidest smart girl in the world strikes again, do you have any idea how long I've been working here and lamenting this stupid desk situation? Of course now my feet don't touch the floor, lol. Dammit!

But I have my own office, so I can work with the overhead light off...if only the Boss would stop popping into my office...ack!