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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The big day is nigh

Stadtpark today

Tomorrow is a big day here. Our new sofa and hocker are being delivered.  

A hocker is a sort of sofa but without a back and you can jiggle it about to extend the sofa so that if you have a mind to it you can stretch out full length.

I have plans to do this while watching golf and cricket.

Now at this stage Cate is looking forward immensely to the delivery of the sofa and hocker – and indeed we have been waiting a long time for this – as I moaned about in this blog. We thought it was never going to happen and Cate got Rozalin onto the job - with an almost immediate outcome. 

I am just hoping there are no obvious flaws so that it does not immediately become yesterday’s sofa – and that the inevitable just happens over a period of some months – gradually – almost imperceptibly.

Cate will look up from her iPad one day and say something like ‘This sofa is not as comfortable as I thought it would be’ or ‘It’s funny but I thought the backs were higher than they are’.

This will elicit from me an immediate flurry of comforting and reassuring words saying that it is the most comfortable sofa I have ever parked my posterior on  - and the backs are the perfect height etc. -  but deep inside I will know that the game is up.

I know that before long I will be wandering aimlessly through furniture stores – practicing my thousand yard stare – recognizing the utter futility of it all – and worst of all – knowing that this will go on years.

However – being the glass half full person as I am – I plan to rejoice in the delivery and immerse myself in the furniture with gusto.

Who knows what will happen – the Rapture is due any day now so there is no point in worrying about next week.

(In fact I am damned sure I read somewhere that 2012 was definitely our last year – something to day with the Mayan calendar? Hasn’t penetrated to Austria – I bought a 2013 wall calendar only last week). 

6 comments:

  1. I am so glad to hear about the calendar. We just went to the city offices to get something notarized and could only get a 2012 calendar.

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  2. Had no idea those were called hockers. The things I learn here...

    ;)

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  3. I love your predicting of the future, complete with the conversations. I bet the Mayans were not capable f doing that. I have not made it back to the restaurant with the Guiness on tap but I did get a six pack at the groc store, which I have enjoyed, but I do like hard apple cider better than the Guiness. There were three kinds of Guiness at the store, so I wiLL try the others after I finish the Draught. The local supply of Bénédictine has been out of stock for several weeks so I have had to downgrade to B&B, terribly sad, I know, but what can I say, I am at the mercy of the French. Or at least their distributors of aLL thing Frankishly to the Americas. I wiLL blame this on the Venezuelan elections and the civil unrest in Iran for no particular reason.

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  4. In our household that hocker would be called an ottoman. Then again, what do I know?

    Good luck!

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  5. fmcgmccllc: They might be worried about the world ending!

    SK Waller: Anyone else would call it an ottoman (See Merisi's comment).

    esb: I find the black stuff interesting - but not compelling. I am happy with a wee drop of Jammies.


    Merisi: That's what we call them too!

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  6. Are you sure "hocker" isn't something you made up?

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