You
know you’re in for a furniture-building rodeo when they hang a long flag of
plastic tape from the hardware box.
That
flag was one of our first finds when we began to unpackage the thirty pieces
required for the full assembly of our new TV table. Upon opening the hardware
box, we found something approaching two hundred screws and pieces of hardware.
Faced
with such an array of untethered parts stacked against us, Desiree and I did
something we had to do: we reached for the instructions.
“You
read. I work,” I suggested.
Fortunately,
Desiree is fluent in four languages: Tagalog, Bisaya, English, and
Construction.
Last
evening, we set about assembling the new TV table from the heap of parts we’d
scattered about our living room. As of this writing, we are still in the
building process. Later today, we hope to finish and put the new table in play.
—Mitchell Hegman
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