those metal things
since my holiday plans (Christmas is the holiday i'm talking about, in case that was unclear to anyone) to travel have been thwarted, ive found myself not wanting to really see anybody except my wife and with a bunch of extra time on my hands. enough to start getting at some of those projects.
so yesterday i steam cleaned our living room carpet. pretty much just for the hell of it. and of course i pushed all the furniture around to let it dry. because, you know, when you steam clean - your carpet gets wet. that's by definition.
imagine my surprise today, when, i pushed our love seat back into place - to find RUST MARKS in the carpet. w. t. effing f.
my wife asked - "why... what is that? are there metal things underneath the legs??", to which i could only reply "apparently". to which she followed up with perhaps THE MOST perceptive and germane question I could ever envision: "why do they do that"?
and that my friends is exactly the fucking question. why the fuck did people, i want to say largely in the fifties, nail little metal things into the bottom of otherwise perfectly formed wooden legs?
to increase the pressure point like a woman's high heal does? so that you get digs in your floor? so you scratch the floor? so your table slides around easier? so that they will rust and leave a mark on whatever they are on if they get damp!?!?!? i'm mean seriously, why reduce the surface area AND put an intentional hostile and unforgiving material (that also rusts!) at your point of interface? and in your home no less? what, ... so they don't wear out? how long is this table supposed to last just sitting there - five hundred years? sure metal tires would last a long time - but they are the right answer to the wrong question for "best contact patch".
what the fuck were people thinking back then?
i'm loosing my tolerance for old school stupidity.
so yesterday i steam cleaned our living room carpet. pretty much just for the hell of it. and of course i pushed all the furniture around to let it dry. because, you know, when you steam clean - your carpet gets wet. that's by definition.
imagine my surprise today, when, i pushed our love seat back into place - to find RUST MARKS in the carpet. w. t. effing f.
my wife asked - "why... what is that? are there metal things underneath the legs??", to which i could only reply "apparently". to which she followed up with perhaps THE MOST perceptive and germane question I could ever envision: "why do they do that"?
and that my friends is exactly the fucking question. why the fuck did people, i want to say largely in the fifties, nail little metal things into the bottom of otherwise perfectly formed wooden legs?
to increase the pressure point like a woman's high heal does? so that you get digs in your floor? so you scratch the floor? so your table slides around easier? so that they will rust and leave a mark on whatever they are on if they get damp!?!?!? i'm mean seriously, why reduce the surface area AND put an intentional hostile and unforgiving material (that also rusts!) at your point of interface? and in your home no less? what, ... so they don't wear out? how long is this table supposed to last just sitting there - five hundred years? sure metal tires would last a long time - but they are the right answer to the wrong question for "best contact patch".
what the fuck were people thinking back then?
i'm loosing my tolerance for old school stupidity.
posted by P3T3RK3Y5 for meltingearth
4 Comments:
Not to celebrate your setbacks, but it appears that your holiday's loss (and your carpet's) is you blog's gain. This is one of the best posts I've read in a really long time. No effing ess.
Yes, this was an awesome blog rant. I feel very selfish for enjoying it knowing the setback that led to it.
oh man. awesome rant. You are right though.
This might help:
http://www.ehow.com/how_18793_remove-rust-fabric.html
thanks for the props guys - i feel a bit better getting this out there.
just about wore a hole in the carpet with our steam cleaner getting one of the four stains out.
thanks for the link Sean - shoulda thunk to google this when it happened.
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