Chairs - ThinnerTimes

Tawanda · 12-29-2005, 09:39 AM

Sorry folks, but I am so embarrassed I just had to let this out.

I started a new job in May 2004. They gave me a really nice office with all new office furniture. Amongst that was a very nice desk chair.

Okay, so I've been sitting on this thing for 19 months and it already needs to be replaced. The compressor thingy in the lift is shot. I only have one heighth....low to the ground. The adjustable back and seat levers don't do a thing and everytime I ever so slightly shift in my seat I can hear grinding metal. I have been stressing over this for months and don't want my boss to notice.

Because I am so conscientious about my desk chair, I've started noticing other places in public and at home where I sit. My couch has a permanent indentation on one end. I don't sit there ALL the time, but apparently the cushion has been squished, over time. I've started to worry that maybe when I sit in my hot tub, I might crack it.

When I visit my Mom's house, I refuse to sit at her kitchen table, because she has a flimsy dinette set and I'm afraid I'll break it. I hate ANY kind of public transportation...flying, buses...etc. It's like trying to shove a marshmallow into a piggy bank and I can't stand the looks I get from all the other passengers when I try to squeeze into a seat.

I've started to look for exitways when I'm out in public, too. You know, "Oooh, I can't go THAT way, because I won't fit between that lady and the wall." Or, "I'm not going down THAT aisle, because there are too many people."

All of this is accompanied by lots of embarrassment. No wonder we have self esteem problems!

Ack! Thanks for listening to my whanny! I sure hope my insurance company listens to my appeal. I would really like to get some help with this before I crash through my bed and land on the floor.

Gladitsme · 12-29-2005, 10:11 AM

Tawanda,

I can totally relate to what you've said. I still do the exit strategizing without even realizing it.

kennieinVA · 12-29-2005, 11:23 AM

I can relate to you, it makes u not want to go out the house or anything!!!! I can't wait til my surgery and then I will not have any problems with that anymore. Hopefully your insurance will get some pep in their step and approve you!!!! If not, I will go and kick their butts!!!

Hugs,

Kennie

Tawanda · 12-29-2005, 01:26 PM

Aw, thanks Kennie....I'll come and pick you up and we can ride together in my squished car seats to the insurance company's office!

crewzer · 12-29-2005, 01:32 PM

And chairs with arms are actually Secret Chinese torture devices. The last couple of years I have been so self conscious of were I sit. I can remember when I was a kid watching a very large obese lady peel the arms off a commanders chair in a custom van. This was right after the guy that owned the van asked if she wanted to sit in the bench seat in the back. Needless to say he wasn't very happy. My present when I reach 300lb is a nice quality recliner. Done wore out a couch, another recliner etc. Can't wait to be able to sit in those little folding camp chairs. Soon.... Good luck

LizardQueen · 12-29-2005, 09:19 PM

We all know those feeling all too well. Don't forget, you can't possibly sit in a booth at a restaurant without having to hold your breath throughout the entire meal. Don't be ashamed and don't feel bad-tell your boss your chair is a cheap piece of crap and you need a replacement before you go to sit and it completely falls apart. Big hugs!

alikat · 12-30-2005, 04:50 AM

Okay, so here is something that happened to me.

Several years back I went out to a small corner bar with some friends to shoot pool. While we were waiting for the table to become available, we were sitting in a booth. I had to shift and pull my way to get into the inside seat, so here I am jammed between the table and the bench, my body does not really fit and I am sliding in. Well the seat on the bench was not attached to the frame of the bench, it was just resting there so when my massive body pulled it it came off and fell to the floor with me creating what I believe now to be a sound equal to a thermonuclear bomb or sonic boom. Needless to say, everyone in the room pointed laughed and made comments such as, look, she is so fat she broke the booth.

Or how about the time I went on a ride at the zoo here in Iceland and the lap bar saftey thingy would not lock because it would not fit over my stomach...

Or the time when...shoot, this self deprication could go on for days so I am going to stop now...secure in the knowledge that lighter days are fast approaching... we are all with you. OH! And the exit strategy thing, man! Doesn't it suck when you finally have plotted your mental route and something shifts? Like one table leaves and the next party seated has a baby in a high chair that now replaced the one section of your mental map that you might have been able to navigate without shoving someones chair and saying excuse me???? Gosh, I hate that!

LizardQueen · 12-30-2005, 06:40 AM

Oh and lest we forget-Who is the idiot who invented turnstiles? Those are always a pleasure trying to slide through sideways! When we went to the zoo this summer, I cried because I could just walk through without have to do the sideways dance and jiggle to get my butt through those tiny metal nightmares.

Tawanda · 12-30-2005, 07:47 AM

Have you ever been in a public restroom where the stalls are too small? Bars are especially bad for this. I swear I almost got stuck in one earlier this year. There I was, jammed between the wall and the cubicle, trying to unzip my pants to sit down. I managed to get down, but the toilet paper dispenser was on the wall and when I stood up, I raked that metal thing across my hip leaving a huge scratch! There was no room to maneuver whatsoever and trying to pull up my pants seemed like a five minute lesson in "how do we stump the fat chick?"

I know that these places are supposed to have a stall reserved for the handicapped. How do they get away with this?

Tawanda · 12-30-2005, 07:48 AM

Ohhh...and forget self contained toilets in trailers and campers....I gave up on those lonnggggg ago. Give me a good ole bush and the great outdoors...sheesh!