Amazing Things You Find in Drawers
Posted 10 July 2008 in Life, the Universe, and Everything
My parents, who are arriving any moment now, are bringing with them a cedar chest of drawers that they rescued in a dire condition from an auction and which my father has spent months restoring.
So I’m stripping the hideous, black-laminate IKEA chest of drawers that has been the bane of my existence for years (I can, for example, only open three of the drawers).
But I had no idea I’d find such strange objects in a piece of furniture we use every day.
So far, I’ve found
1. A plastic pirate’s hook.
2. A fake, black-velvet bow tie.
3. My hairbrush, which went missing a couple of weeks ago.
4. A Christmas card from people I have barely spoken to in seven years.
5. The receipt for a Christmas present Nick bought me six years ago. Whoops.
6. My own body weight in scarves and shawls, including my father’s moth-eaten Liverpool University scarf.
7. A random piece of cardboard, which I think once surrounded the sari I’ve had hanging on my bedroom wall for six years—but I don’t know why this is in a drawer.
8. At least one T-shirt for every cult TV show that’s aired since 1992—plus multiple Doctor Who shirts and The Cure shirts: Nick has worn none of these for years.
9. A shopping list. I think I must have been making coleslaw, because it calls for red cabbage, capsicum, radishes, and parsley. (Well, technically, it calls for “radish” and “parsleys,” so I think Nick got his plural nouns confused.)
10. Organza bags that once held Easter eggs.
11. The bottom halves of a pair of trousers that Nick once had that zipped off at the knees: I don’t think he even has the trousers any more.
I’m sure there’d be more, but parents have arrived and I need to go and dismantle a 1960s’ sideboard.
Life in the suburbs, eh?
Share your thoughts [3]
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Leigh wrote at Jul 11, 09:10 AM:
I had a comment that came straight out of the gutter, but I will refrain :)
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Tim wrote at Jul 11, 06:35 PM:
I think that might be my pirate hook.
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Catriona wrote at Jul 12, 08:01 AM:
We did end up with an enormous quantity of leftover pirate gear after the last pirate party. Which reminds me: I can’t remember what I did with Nick’s scimitar. From the looks of them, though, the Latvian pirates at Eurovision went shopping at the same costume shop as we did.
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