Television furniture safety.

With today's bigger and thinner TV's, there is a new wave of accidents where the televisions tip over. There have been many injuries and, sadly, two deaths reported in such cases. Currently there is legislation being considered that would require improved safety features for the way televisions are used with furniture. If you have a wall unit that provides the capability of mounting the TV on a back panel, this is a good option. If your TV rests on a console you may have a few options. One is to mount it to the wall. We sell television consoles manufactured by BDI, a company with a great reputation for producing excellent furniture for televisions and related equipment, and they make two products for mounting televisions. One is specifically designed to mount to some of their consoles and the other is a free standing unit that can be used with any TV bench of the appropriate size. Call us for details.

Furniture jokes, stories

Furniture is not an inherently funny subject. There are a thousand jokes that start out “A guy walks into a bar…” but how many have you heard that begin with “A guy walks into a furniture store”? Anyway, I thought I should try to scrounge up a little bit of furniture humor.

Several years ago in our store I marked the price of a Van Gogh print at $40,000,000 (this is a true story). Then I put a line through the price and the words “NOW ONLY $449.00”. A lady asked me why it had been marked down so much, and I told her it was because I found out that it was not an original. “Oh” she said, as if this made perfect sense, and never cracked a smile.

A couple was in a furniture store lamenting over the price of a bedroom set. The salesman told them “here’s what you do: you finance it, then you don’t make any payments for a year”. “Who told you about us?” the woman snapped back.

A Danish furniture sales-rep was in Paris and noticed a beautiful woman smiling at him. Unfortunately they discovered that they had no common language with which they could communicate. The woman drew a picture of a wine glass, so he nodded and they went to a restaurant and ordered a bottle of wine. Then, on a napkin, she sketched two plates of food. After a wonderful meal the beautiful lady, with a smile, handed the sales-rep a drawing of a bed. And, as he tells the story, “to this day, I don’t know how she knew I was in the furniture business”.

Know any furniture jokes? Send them to me!