Sunday, November 4, 2012

Week 11 Prompt 52

http://unclehenrys.com/init/classifieds/ad_detail/4053105/?_next=http%3A%2F%2Funclehenrys.com%2Finit%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2F5%234053105
Harley Davidson Stool.

This ad probably came from a women trying to clean out her house of junk from the past. If she's anything like my mother she's constantly organizing things and trying to find stuff to throw or give away. I'd say she's getting rid of old junk that she and her husband don't use anymore. This stool was probably sat on a total of 3 times by the looks of it. It belonged to a whole slew of Harley Davidson Memorabilia that was shoved into one tiny section of the basement that her husband liked to refer to as the bar or his "man cave". She thinks it was part of some mid-life crisis he had where he thought he needed to feel like a young fella again. He spent more time building this little man cave and finding stuff to add to it than he did actually using it. He had high hopes of his buddies coming over, watching the game, getting a little buzzed, and talking about the good old days when he actually had a Harley. However, it turns out he didn't use the cave as much as he would've liked. He wasn't actually young anymore; he didn't have a bike, and he went to bed by 7 (even on the weekends) so there wasn't much excitement happening down there. So, regardless of whether he still wanted to use the room and his favorite Harley stool or not, his wife thinks it's necessary to fill the space with something they will actually make use of on a regular basis. Hence why she put up this ad for the Harley Davidson bar stool, just one item on her list of things to sell.

1 comment:

  1. Whew, that's a very dark and cynical but probably pretty accurate take on the emotions of the aging man and the attitude of the wife.

    This summation is particularly devastating: "He wasn't actually young anymore; he didn't have a bike, and he went to bed by 7 (even on the weekends) so there wasn't much excitement happening down there."

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