I just started a new job a couple of months ago, and when they brought me to my desk, it was pretty plain. It has a computer, two monitors and well, a chair. I have a really bad back, because of age, scoliosis that I was diagnosed for as a kid and before last year, overwhelming pressure from my front.

I’ve lost a few lbs., but my back still hurts. The reason I bring this up is because the chair I sit in seems to be a few years old. And when I say a few years old, I mean, like my amount of years old. Just like me it is showing the effects of aging.  Just like with age, my hair is falling out, my aforementioned back is creaking, and things just seem to fall off.

My chair has a hard back, the joints are creaky, the wheels aren’t smooth, and just recently, its skin started  falling off. Yeah, you heard that right. You know how leather, or faux leather, in the case of this chair, starts cracking? Well, this chair is beyond the cracking and is now to the peeling stage. Just like I will discover hair falling out in my sink, I will find cracking pieces of leather falling off my chair on the floor everyday.

I wonder if this place has a program in their system here that determines your chair by your age and your condition.  If so, then the program matched me and my chair perfectly, because this chair matches my age.

Enough about chairs, let’s just get to the Bitter Friday Giftures.

But more importantly…

…my chair is falling apart.

Doesn’t it just feel like…

…one thing could go wrong and things could go really sideways?

It only takes a little push…

…to push things to the brink.

Take down…

…one wall,

Have a…

…little bit of sugar.

Have a…

…kid or two.

Get a little…

…bad news.

Get a little…

…sucker punched.

Get a hair…

…out of place…

Or perhaps…

…a neck out of place.

When chairs…

…aren’t doing their jobs.

How are we supposed…

…to do ours?

It easy to blame the chair for things falling apart, so that is what I’m going to do. What else would I do, accept blame myself? Seriously, you are so funny.

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

Bitter Chair falling apart Ben