toby of the day, 3.9.2008

Today we went to our local unfinished furniture store looking for a low table, and maybe a bookshelf and some non-toxic wood stain. As usually happens, we bought none of these things. I got the feeling that the nice man at the store spends much of his time helping non-buyers like us. the kind of people who arrive with their tape measure, browse around measuring things for 45 minutes and then leave empty handed. I think he thought he had clinched the deal when they didn’t have any low tables so he offered to take a table out back and trim down the legs. But we’re pretty wily at talking ourselves out of purchases and managed to not only decline the table but to put back the jars of non-toxic wood stain we picked up and slink out. Victory is ours unfinished furniture man! Until we meet again… We have some unfinished business.