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Sunday, November 6, 2011

I, uh. Oh, dear GOD.

So we spent this Sunday at my 'rents place, helping them winterize. Yard stuff in the shed, limbs trimmed and stacked, firewood moved, furniture re-arranged and vacuumed under...the works. In the process, my step-gator dragged me down to their finished basement to show me her newest purchase.

Now, as much as I love the step-gator, she's a sucker for "miracle cures." Her back has been bothering her, and we've gone through massages, chiropractors, orthopods, etc.  She'd strap a mongoose to her back and wear weasels in her pants if she was promised that it would make her lumbar spine feel better.

A few weeks back, while she and the Da' were at a street fair, they came across a vendor selling what were described to me as "these fabulous chairs that float and take away your back pain altogether!" She was most serious when she told me that all she needed to do was sit in the chair for about ten minutes at a pop, and her lower back pain melted away.  "Of course," she said, "it takes a bit of getting used to, but it really does help. It's a suspension-y sort of thing -- you just hang there kid of weightless...your dad put it up in the basement. He attached it to one of the joists, and I can sit in it and watch my shows!"

She went on to describe it's construction, but I admit that I was tired and sore and only paying perfunctory attention, nodding in all the right places as I followed her down the stairs to be confronted by one of these hanging from the rafters.

That's right. My mom and dad basically bought and installed a fuck swing in their basement.

I just about swallowed my teeth. Worse, I was subjected to my mom (whom I adore, but she is rather Emperor-penguin-shaped) clamber into the contraption and explain how all the straps for your knees and ankles work to help support you and make you weightless.

As she was hanging there, and I was trying to not cry/laugh until I peed myself, the husband came down and did a visible double-take. I shot him a "shut the holy fuck up and don't say a word or I will gut you like a God damned fish" look, and helped her disentangle herself. She then, generously, offered to help ME into the device, because it "really would make your back feel better!"

Husband assumed the biggest, most shit-eating grin I have ever seen on a human and concurred that I ought to give it a go. I demurred.

I swear to God I am going to track down that vendor and strangle him with one of his own products.

21 comments:

  1. I'll bet she got it cheap too!! Really though, it does help your back.... because you forget all about it hurting!!!!
    BWAAAAHHHHAAAAAA!!
    YeOldFurt

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  2. Okay, now that I've stopped laughing . . . Someone totally needs to send her the link to a website that sells those "special chairs."

    Bwahahahahahaaaaahhh!

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  3. Endorphins are nature's painkillers.

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  4. There isn't a husband on earth that hasn't gotten that look.

    And I'm glad that the laptop is water resistant. Now I just need another drink.

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  5. Bwahahaha! Priceless!

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  6. BWahahaha.... Oh... breathe.... :-) Oh damn... that is hilarious!!!

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  7. Oh, shit! That was VERY good coffee I just sprayed across the carpet!

    Wow.... now that is going to set the tone for my whole morning. Thanks for sharing (GGG).

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  8. Bwahaha!

    (I'm sending you the bill for my new keyboard.)

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  9. That was a class five beverage alert.
    And I didn't see it coming.
    Anon, Don

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  10. That's right. My mom and dad basically bought and installed a fuck swing in their basement.

    I will carry those words with me until death. Fortunately, I was not in the vicinity of any beverages during the reading. Holy shit, that was funny!




    tweaker

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  11. I would like to congratulate you on your iron self-control. :)

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  12. Can't... breathe... laughing... too... hard...

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  13. Running behind in my blogs, but I am so very glad I got to this story today - damn I needed that!

    Thanks for the laugh!

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  14. OMG OMG OMG OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG!!!!!!!

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  15. You might have been stalled about what to be getting them for Christmas, but now you know whips, rope, duct tape, and a big supply of batteries would be good gifts.

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  16. "The street finds its own uses for things."
    —William Gibson

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  17. Mrs. Gator has a backache. I have an idea.

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  18. Scarred for life, I am...but laughing my ass off. I know better than to have beverage in hand whilst reading your blog, so I was safe there. But dammit, I can't quit laughing...
    Thank you.

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  19. Maybe you could suggest one of these for her TMJ.

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  20. Thanks for the link; I've been looking for one of those things.

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  21. Thanks for the laugh . . . I really needed it today!

    BTW . . . that's a situation I could totally see MY mother in.

    :P

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