The Chair
On wednesday of last week, I was at a convention for work. It is one of the bigger Higher ed Tech Conferences and just happened to be in Denver this year. Well they have a big part of the convention center set up for product vendors etc etc. I was out there looking for stuff were trying to impliment etc etc. At one of the vendors (office furniture) I was talking to one of their reps about some Video Conferencing stuff we’re looking for etc etc. He then randomly asked me to sit on a chair. It was one of their office chairs, that they sold. ANyway, I wasnt there looking at chairs or anything we were talking about meeting tables, but none the less he asked how the chair felt. I told him it was pretty comfortable. He replied “good it’s yours” I kind of brushed the comment aside but he kept saying I could have the chair. He Told me I could pick it up Thursday afternoon. He said they had an extra chair shipped by mistake and had no room to bring it back. SInce I was “local” he said If I had the means to take it I could. It was a nice chair too. At least 200.00. Unfortunatly for me I was to leave for Ohio thursday morning. SO I left a message with a coworker to go pick it up etc etc. And trust me to get a message saying hey A guy at the conference gave me a chair can you pick it up for me? Is kind of wierd. Anyway I left last Thursday to visit home for a few days and while at one of the layovers I called the coworker and being the somewhat jokester I am, he didnt beleive that note I left him at all. I had to convince him it was valid and hopefully he’d get the chair. If you see the chair I have at home right now youd want a new one too, so I was hoping hed go get it. Though i’d understand if he didnt cause it would be quite weird to roll a chair 4-5 blocks in downtown denver. This morning I rolled into work after A few Days in Ohio to find the Blue chair in My office. Looking at It something didnt look quite right. despite the color and the arm rests it seemed nothing like the chair the gentleman had me sit in several days earlier. In fact there was a small stain on it and it squeeked like hell. The tags were on the chair and I opened them up. Sure enough there were two chairs in the booklet. One that looked like the one in my office and one like the one that I sat in at the Convention. I wasn’t about to complain, Hell the chair I have at home was ready to die so, anything is a thousand times better. Later this morning the coworker that claimed the chair for me, wondered why I wanted such a crappy chair. I began to tell him that I swore I sat in a different chair. But i showed him the pamphlet with the two chairs and I pretty much assumed they took the good one home and since they said I could have a chair they gave me the crappy one. Roughly 30 min later that cowqorker came back to my office and with another coworker asked me to see something in another room. There sat the Good chair and they begin busting out laughing. I have been getting them pretty bad all month and they finally got their revenge. I must admit i was convinced They gave me the crappy Chair. Anyway A dumb story for a boring tuesday. 