Sofa, So Good
Published April 28, 2007 by CabledSheep
I’m afraid there’s still no knitting content today. I’ve been busy day and night this week, and no knitting occurred. But the good news is that yesterday was my last day of full time employment [applause, loud cheering]. After a 2-week “vacation”, I’ll be going back to work at my office on a part-time basis for a few months in order to ease their transition. But that meant moving from my large office to a tiny cubicle. The photo of my old office doesn’t really show how big it is. (And it’s pretty barren, since all of my ’stuff’ has been moved out’). To the right of the doorway was an area with a couch. (And by the way, please excuse the crappy cell-phone photos.)
The couch has a very long history at my office. It’s been there since the office was built in 1977. There were two of them, and they were highly coveted. Whenever people left, changed offices, remodeled, etc., there was always an issue over who got the sofa. Of course, not everyone had room for one, but they’d get squeezed in wherever possible. When I took over this office, the person who had it before me had one of the sofas. He was moving to a different area of the building, and there was no way he was leaving the sofa, so even though it didn’t fit very well in his new office, away it went. But as luck would have it, the OTHER sofa was currently in the hallway outside our department, in an area that was going to be enlarged to build a training room. I asked my boss if he thought I could have the couch, and he told me to just ‘take it’, because that’s what everyone else always did with furniture they wanted. Hardly anyone ever had to give something up once they had possession. So I did, and it’s been in my office ever since.
Of course, now that I was moving out of the office, everyone wanted to know what was going to happen with the couch. Well, of course, it’s just going to stay there for my replacement. But having nothing better to do yesterday, I thought it would be amusing to appropriate it for my cubicle. We first stood it on end outside the cubicle door, but aside from the fact that it wasn’t very stable, it wasn’t really IN my cubicle. And the cushions kept falling out. So we remedied the situation. It’s now “mostly” in my cube, although it does have to be on its side. Next week when the new guy moves in, they can move it back, but it’s providing plenty of amusement in the meantime.
And by the way, what do you call this object? I usually call it either a couch or sofa, pretty much equally. My mother, who was born in Ohio, sometimes called it a Davenport, but I haven’t heard her use that term for at least 30 years.
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Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
Congratulations on your retirement!
I would call it a sofa or a settee - that must be a British word though as I haven’t heard it here.
Yay!! SHE’S FREE!
I call it a couch most of the time. Sofa if I’m feeling snooty;-)
Woo-hooooooooooo! Congratulations on your retirement!
Couch. My Mom occasionally said Davenport, and I occasionally say ’sofa’. ‘Couch’ sounds the most comfortable, though.
Congrats on your retirement!
We’d call it a lounge. (Probably an Aussie word)
Great story about the coveted office couch!
I sometimes use sofa…I thought Davenport was a Canadian thing.
Congratulations on retirement!!
Fabu sofa dahlink! My mother sometimes called it a divan.
Enjoy your time away
Blue skies! Lark