Chair plastic

Leina still has plastic covering the fabric on the seats of her dining room chairs. The fabric is white, but most people would think that the plastic was intended to keep the chairs clean until they were safely in a customer's living room, where it could then be removed to expose the nice upholstery below. Not Leina.

Last night, Leina hosted Alice and David one last time. Serena and Erica and Tony also came. The original plan was to go out for drinks, then to go out for dessert, but in the end, all stayed at Leina's for drinks and shortbread cookies that Erica had made. Leina had a taco at Farolito Taqueria for dinner. It was big and cheap. She intends to go back some day soon.

During the evening, a list was made of things Leina would like to do to her house. It included, in no particular order, paint the kitchen, paint the kitchen cabinets, paint the bathroom, paint the hallway, buy a MacBook, knock out half the wall between the kitchen and living room, get new windows, give Serena her piano, take the plastic off the seats of the dining room chairs, clean the basement, and tear out the living room carpet to expose the hardwood floors.

They were then ranked in terms of cost (new windows at the top, tearing the plastic off the chairs tied with several other things at the bottom) and effort (again, finding a contractor and settling on a style put new windows near the top, possibly tied with cleaning the basement and tearing the plastic off the seats of the chairs again near the bottom).

A decision was made to cross one thing off the list then and there. David, being unknowing and English, inspired the tearing of the plastic off the chairs when he asked if Leina had gotten new chairs. Leina sheepishly admitted that she had gotten new chairs, about three years ago. David was then nominated to remove the plastic from the chairs, but he was too scared to follow through with it because he doesn't know Leina so well. After a few glasses of wine, Alice was more than happy to tear off the plastic. David helped.

Now Leina has to worry about the white fabric on the bottom of her chairs getting sullied by someone's dirty jeans. But she no longer has to put up with comments about how she still had the plastic on her chairs.