Chairs

It is relatively easy to say who invented the light bulb, but impossible to say who built the first chair. They took one out of King Tut’s tomb when they opened it in 1922, and King Tut died 1400 years before Christ was born and that certainly wasn’t the first chair, either. So they have been around a long time. If there was a first man, he probably sat on the first chair.

Chairs have always been something more than a place for us to bend in the middle and put our posteriors on other legs in order to take weight off of our own. Chairs serve as a bed when it is too early to go to bed, and a place to take a nap before turning in a night’s sleep. Chairs have also been a symbol of power and authority, probably because before the 17th century only the very rich owned real chairs. The other people sat o

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In a stereotypical office the executive sits at his desk with his large leather executive chair which swivels and leans back, fully equipped with arm rests and wheels for easy movement, while just outside the secretary sits at her typing chair in a lot of discomfort. Not only is it used for sitting while eating dinner, but it is also useful for serving as a step ladder to change a light bulb or retrieve objects from high up shelves. You are somehow unsatisfied with the way your body is positioned in the chair, but unsure as to what to do about it. Sooner or later that wonderful feeling you got when you first took your feet off the floor will go away, and you will be left feeling uncomfortable. Theoretically, the royal chair is never to be sat in by anyone but a nation’s ruler, but it is hard to believe that a few of the cleaning ladies did not test it out once in a while.

There is nothing else like chairs that we have in such great numbers. I suppose it would be difficult to sell theatre tickets by seat size, or for a dentist to have more than one chair depending on who needs their tooth fixed, but the fact remains: People do not take the same size chair any more than they take the same size shoe.

The first few minutes after you sit down are satisfying, but no matter how good it feels to get your feet off the ground, you cannot stay in one position very long.

A throne is the ultimate place to sit down and there are still something like 25 countries in the world that have thrones, and leaders who actually sit on them. The sitting executives found they were not satisfied not moving at all during the day, so they invented a chair for executives. If she was still eight inches from where she wanted to be, she had to put her hands under the seat and haul herself to the table while the man made some petty nudge from behind. The most common alteration in the sitting position usually comes when the legs are crossed.

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