A Bizarre Furniture Accident Helps Me Remember Anthro.com
So I get this phone call at 9am on a Sunday from my high school classmate. Instead of me being an early riser and deep in morning meditative discipline—more than ready to handle a phone, I was sleep. I jumped out of bed, stumbled into the next room and reached for the phone before the fourth ring. Why should I care about missing a call? Yes… why should I care…? That’s when my fuzziness became clear. I was still in the dream state. I heard this loud crash from a distance but I could clearly see what was making the noise right over my shoulder. I was waking up after falling backwards on the floor. When I woke up, I just laid there staring at the ceiling. Shit!
I fell on the top of my Herman Miller Scooter. My brand new Sager Notebook was sitting on top of the top of my Herman Miller Scooter. Also, my precious WD Passport was sitting next to the Sager. Well, that’s it. There’s no more hardware to Blog about. It’s all over… Shit. So, when I stood on my two feet, eventually I could make this list:
- There was not one scratch on the WD Passport. It’s a notebook drive—built for little bumps.
- There was not one scratch on the Sager. However, the RJ45 jack was plugged in… this might have caused some internal damage to the NIC connection because I notice little “network cable unplugged” problems…
- The Herman Miller Scooter was totaled. This high-end, Beverly-Hills-furniture-store, die-cast metal cheapness most likely saved me from serious injury. I ripped the solid ash wood top right off.Now that I ‘discovered’ what my Scooter was made of there’s no way I’d be replacing this with another one. Once this barrier was put in place, I remembered Anthro.com. This place clearly escaped me because (even though they are not based in Beverly Hills) the AnthroCart is genuinely high end. Over ten years ago I would definitely not have the cash or credit to buy their products. Since those lean days, the Anthro product lines have expanded—their Adjustable Laptop Cart is more than replacement of the Scooter. I’m so pleased with this new kind of furniture in my life. I took pictures and made notes of its assembly.
J’ah jireh! There will be no falling on laptop furniture ever again! Because should this ever happen again, this sturdy Anthro cart will kill me!