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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2020-10-24 06:34 pm

chairs

One amusing thing I noticed earlier in the pandemic was that chairs were popping up in odd places. First an office chair appeared in the middle of the neighborhood common. A little later a metal chair with a vinyl cushion on the seat and for back support appeared wedged below the railway bridge. "I'd like to get my picture taken there when I'm just finishing a run," I thought--it would be just perfect because it's often right around that spot that I end a run, and I'm tired.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of the chairs, so have some drawings from memory. Not to scale! The chairs are larger than they should be--and the office chair looks kind of like a monster.





And the most incongruously placed chair was a wooden chair perched atop the roof of what's called the Swift River Pavilion--Swift River because the school it's next to is called Swift River, and pavilion? I don't now: it's a roof supported by pillars, and underneath it are picnic tables and things. Sometimes little performances happen there.



Some of the chairs lingered longer than others. The one on the common was gone after a day or two, but the one by the railway bridge was there for over a month--but I never got my picture taken there!

So when I noticed that two chairs had appeared underneath the illuminated business sign at a busy (well, by B-town standards ... not that busy, really) T-junction, I vowed not to miss my chance. And the other evening Wakanomori obliged me. I still wish I could have sat in the other ones.

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[personal profile] queenoftheskies 2020-10-24 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. That's really strange.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2020-10-24 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
bwee :)
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-25 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Not to scale!

I love these drawings, and the photograph of you with the wild chairs.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-25 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
If there is a chair, one should sit in it!

That is an admirably cat attitude!
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[personal profile] sartorias 2020-10-25 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I recognize the spot in the middle drawing!
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[personal profile] queenoftheskies 2020-10-25 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
It would be funny if the same person had done it all.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2020-10-25 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Those are rather nice-looking chairs in the photo!
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[personal profile] amaebi 2020-10-25 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
<3
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[personal profile] teenybuffalo 2020-10-25 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Authoritatively sat!
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[personal profile] wayfaringwordhack 2020-10-27 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
that was my thought, too. :P
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[personal profile] wayfaringwordhack 2020-10-27 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That is hilarious because we liked to put that same emphasis on butTOCKS when I was little. I wonder now why. :P