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Mummy, where do sofas come from?

 
 
Rev. Orr
12:31 / 17.08.02
Trapped in a non-smoking office for the weekend, I've been escaping out onto the roof for a quick burst of carcinogens. A couple of weeks ago, a wooden garden bench appeared overnight next to one of the skylights and this has improved the quality of by breaks enormously. Today, however, it has been joined by two huge leather sofas.

The roof can be accessed by two seperate office buildings, but it isn't exactly an easy route from ground level, particularly if you're carry very large, bulky item of furniture. I presume they've been brought out so that someone can enjoy the sun, but who sunbathes on a polished leather sofa? Wouldn't it stick to you?

Anyone have any ideas as to what the might be doing out on a roof in the middle of London? If there's a card table and a sun umbrella there next time I need a cigarrette I think I may lose it.
 
 
Bad Horse
12:40 / 17.08.02
Eddies in the space time continuum?
 
 
Rev. Orr
12:42 / 17.08.02
It's possible, but wouldn't they get sued by the estate of Douglas Adams?
 
 
w1rebaby
13:00 / 17.08.02
I expect that a roc picked them up, thinking they were cows (one in each claw). Realising its mistake it dropped them and they happened to land on your roof. Look for giant claw marks on the underside. There's a lot of rocs over London this time of year.
 
 
Rev. Orr
13:10 / 17.08.02
Checked the undersides - no signs of talon damage. But, there is now a subather out there and he's as far away from the sofas as possible...

I'm getting scared.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:05 / 17.08.02
They climbed up there on their own but don't really get on with each other. Have you tried talking to them?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:43 / 17.08.02
As long as they're not making any threatening noises yet, so fa so good.
 
 
Knight's Move
15:51 / 17.08.02
A sofa once mysteriously appeared in my front garden once. All I did was pass out drunk in my living room, having promised friends they could come back and then left them in the pub, all at a time when they were trying to get rid of their old sofa.

I just can't work out what might have happened.
 
 
Grey Area
16:02 / 17.08.02
What I want to know is who is rich enough to leave two leather sofas on a roof, exposed to the elements, birds and all the other stuff you find on a roof (does lichen grow on leather?).

Unless this is yet another outer-worldly aspect of London. Not only are the streets paved with gold there's leather sofas on all the rooftops.
 
 
Rev. Orr
17:04 / 17.08.02
Okay, final report before I high-tail it home. Mysterious Sunbathing Man(MSM) has finished lying out in the shade and has moved a little closer to the Leather Sofas of Doom (LSD). MSM has produced a barbeque set and is working on the charcoal. The LSD have been joined by a sun lounger, and three or four folding chairs. All is set for a party of some sorts, but there is no-one else out there.

And could no-one suggest that their are there to cheer me up with their singing and are therefore a tonic sol-fa - thank you very much.
 
 
bio k9
18:18 / 17.08.02
Wait till dark and take one home.
 
 
Bad Horse
18:48 / 17.08.02
I wouldn't take one home as I suspect they are agents of the 'no smoking policy' police, they just picked an inappropriate disguise for this assignment.
 
 
Mazarine
01:04 / 18.08.02
Illuminati meeting. Gotta be.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
04:09 / 18.08.02
Don't leave them alone together at night, unless they have a ready supply of KY and freezer bags. Otherwise you might come into work one morning and find some little baby armchairs nuzzling up to the mummy sofa.

And the Daddy sofa might be facing a... (drumroll) paternity suite! (a-BOOM-tish.)
 
  
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