(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews. I have not been following along as reliably this year as I did in previous years, but I'm still participating! Mostly.)
Prompt: Things I totally misunderstood as a kid...I grew up with a large-ish wooden chest in my room. It sat under the window, and we kept stuffed animals, sheets and blankets, and toys in it at various points. It had a lovely little cushion on top, and it was very solid and a good height for sitting on. So, naturally, we called it the seater chest, 'cause it served as a seat.
Seater chest. For years, I genuinely thought that thing was a type of furniture known as a seater chest, in the same general way way that a small, two-person couch is a love seat. Made perfectly good sense.
It wasn't until I was sixteen and getting ready to leave home, and we were rearranging the room, that I discovered it was called a seater chest because it was...
...made...
...of...
...cedar.
It was a cedar chest, made of cedar wood, and my parents had put a cushion over the top for no better reason than that it seemed like a good idea at the time, not because that sort of chest was supposed to be padded for seating.
I would not have been more surprised if I'd discovered that my mom had been a cephalopod this whole time. Absolutely mind-blowing. I don't think I've ever recovered.
I love this story. Too funny.
ReplyDeleteIt really was a moment for me!
DeleteWell, what else were you supoosed to think, Michael 🤣
ReplyDeleteNo idea. Never even occurred to me that it might be something else.
DeleteI would have thought the same.
DeleteIt made sense! It was the sort of mistake I would have made if I hadn't been exposed to cedar trees before encountering a cedar chest.
ReplyDeletePris cilla King
Exactly! I feel so vindicated.
DeleteI think that actually makes more sense. I mean, we don't call anything else made of cedar after the type of wood, that I know of. And you DO sit on it.... 🤣🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteYes!
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