Yak the Younger’s birthday present – a new loft bed/desk combination – arrived last Friday. Never one to let moss grow on any job that permits me to use a hammer, I decided to spend Saturday disassembling the old loft bed (which may be inherited by The Random Niece) and setting up the new (”some assembly required” – which basically means “wegrew the trees, you do the rest”).
All went well at the beginning. I thought the project through, loosened all the screws on the old bed and triumphantly gave the structure a mild shake. In a perfect world this would have neatly removed both end pieces, leaving me holding the mattress support and ladder assembly. Unfortunately, I forgottwo small but critical facts.
First: mine is not a perfect world.
Second: On this particular bed, the ladder assemblyattaches to the side pieces, not the mattress support.
Whoops.
In the split second it took me to realize my mistake the bed tipped off balance, refusing to separate and knocking me backward into the knee-high boxes containing the new bed. Gravity took over at that point, and before I could think the situation through I found myselfambushed from below bythe boxes of new bed,attacked from above by the intractable old bed, and hoping beyond hope that The Random Spouse didn’t hear the deafening crash that accompanied my latest venture in lack-of-foresightland.
Not a chance.
A minute or so later (long enough for fullawareness to sink in, but not long enough for me to extricate myself from the humiliating position) the door opened to reveal The Random Spouse. After a pause just long enough for me to lay odds on the degree to which the first spoken words would bury the irony meter TRS asked, “Are you okay?”
“No moreso than usual.”
“You know I would have helpedif you’d just waited a few minutes.”
“I didn’t think I needed any help. I thought I had it.”
I’d had it all right. Had it on my chest, my shoulder and my upper back – though I wouldn’t realize quite how much I’d had until the following morning.
Never one to let a couple hundred pounds of wood and metal get me down for long, I finished disassembling the old bed (maybe with a little help from The Random Spouse) took a short break and then spent the next five hours assembling the new bed. (Given my physical state Sunday morning and today, the jury is still out on the wisdom of this decision.) I haven’t yet put together the bookcases that accompany the desk but on the whole the room looks fantastic and I’m fairly proud of the endeavor.
The Random Mother called late Saturday evening and asked how the assembly went. I told her it was close, but I won by decision.
Now, if I could just getpast feeling like a bed fell on me over the weekend…
Trackposted to Pirate’s Cove, Perri Nelson’s Website, Stuck On Stupid, The Bullwinkle Blog, and Conservative Cat, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
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Silly puppy. YOU fall on BED, NOT the other way around.
Learn the sequence. Drill regularly.
Exam at 11:00.
Comment by David — July 7, 2007 @ 1:20 pm