My fluffy pink chair

I finally opened the cardboard box that's been housed permanently in my hallway. Today was that day where I stopped putting it off to the weekend, or the next week or the next day.

'Do not run a cutter,' it said in big black letters.

Careful to abide by the mandate, I tried delicately to cut the stubborn packaging. A little after five minutes of struggling with the cardboard, I spotted the pink fluff that would eventually be my office chair.

The first thing I noticed was the zip. 'Yayy, I can remove it and throw it into the washer,' my mind went, but after inspecting the back, it quickly dawned on me that the purpose of it was utterly useless. It had screw holes cut right through it and once fitted, would be impossible to remove the pink fluff. So, I dismally started to assemble, or rather disassemble the parts from its home of a month to the top of my bed.

I started with the wheels, which were easy enough to push into place. Once the base was firmly on the floor, I began with the cushions. Two curved surfaces, one with a black metal projection at a ninety-degree angle. Looking at the one-page instruction manual that had not one written word on it, I figured the drawings. That was the easy bit.

Try putting four screws into two curved cushions that are bigger than me while holding them perpendicular to each other! After numerous tries that involved me squinting to peek at the screw holes to dancing around balancing the cushions on my leg, lap, hands and whatever else I could lean against, I finally managed to put a screw in. It took me several more tries until I could even get a second screw to touch the end of where it was meant to go. Whoever said assembling an office chair was easy, hasn't tried a flamboyant one!

Safe to say that by the time I could get all four screws in, I had earned myself a backache, regret on why I had made such a choice and cursing Amazon for not providing this service (not like I would have taken it - thanks pandemic and OCD)!

I must say that it's quite pleasing to sit here writing this on the very chair. The chair is everything I wanted it to be and it's providing some much-needed relief to my lower back, that's a plus! Could it have been a little less pink? Absolutely effing not!