Some times things that are home-made are extraordinary, and sometimes they’re just extra special. In my zeal to purchase unique, low cost furnishings, I sometimes stray across the line of practical and swing out wide into the territory of ill-designed and potentially extremely dangerous.
Case in point: the toy box with a 20lb lid.
What designer of toy boxes would start with a wonderful wooden box and then finish it off with a 20lb counter-top lid? I’m not quite sure. Perhaps more relevant, what parent would purchase a toy box with a lid that could severe the hand of the tin man?
Not surprisingly, I haven’t been able to sell this guillotine toy box…until today! A wonderful mother of 4 came in today and immediately took to the giant finger hazard. After explaining to her that she would need to install approximately 50 sturdy latches to keep the lid from slamming, she surprisingly backed away.
For a moment, I considered the possibility that I would live and die, and probably be buried, with the sturdiest box ever made by man.
But wait! If a drill and some screws could make the box, maybe a drill with some screws could fix the box. As my potential customer left the store and walked to her car, I grabbed my drill and got to work. In less than 90 seconds, I drilled, screwed, and propped my way to a sale.
Thank you, metal foot sliders for holding the lid, and thank you, children, for keeping your mother in the parking lot long enough for me to chase after her and sell her my innovative, hand-made, extra special box.
