Leather Sofas, an Alternate Use

Most of the time, when you talk of leather sofas, it is to talk about how great they are for a living room; or maybe how cheap you can pick one up, if you just know where to shop. Well, of all the leather sofas I have ever known, the best was a beat up, battered, and tattered one my Dad found at the town dump one day. My Mother took one look at it, and nearly fainted. It always seemed that my Dad would return from the dump with more stuff than when he left! And, as leather sofas go, this was a sad, sad sofa.

My Dad explained that not all leather sofas are for the fancy living room. None of us understood; until he had my older brothers carry it down to the cellar. It was then that he explained that this was not like leather sofas for company; it was to be a play place for me and my friends. I just about split my face in half, I was grinning so broadly.

After that, my friends and I made use of that cheap old couch like no leather sofas have ever been used. It became our battleship, out space ship, out bunker for our war games. We bounced and bounded about that most pitiful of leather sofas as if it was the best play house on earth.

When my friends and I saw our first war movie, that cheap leather sofa became our bomber and fighter planes. I would say that, of all the leather sofas around, our got the most use - at least by a bunch of small boys. And then came the ultimate story of all. We got to go see the movie: The Poseidon Adventure. Oh, now that was the ultimate movie of excitement. I mean, come on, a movie about a boat flipping over! What little boy could resist that?

So, the best next weekend, we decided that our sofa was going to be quite different from all other leather sofas. It was going to get turned upside down! But, things didn't work out quite as we planned. Three little eight year old boys, four, if we managed to get another friend to come over to my house, just were not strong enough to turn that sofa over. We were faced with a real dilemma here. It was suggested we get a winch or something, but we were looking for a more affordable solution. After all, where would we get the money to buy a winch?

Yet, we were nothing if not resourceful. After all, we were - men! At least that was how we saw ourselves. Now, right about this same time, my Dad showed me a very economical method of moving things. It was by using a lever and a fulcrum. He explained that an ancient Greek named Archimedes had invented it. He'd even said that, with a lever big enough, and a spot to stand, he could move the world! Well, if a lever could do that, surely moving leather sofas had to be a breeze. And using one would be such a cheap and easy means of doing it.

So, we got ourselves some boards, and some cinder blocks - to serve as fulcrums, and we headed into the cellar. Thing was, my Dad saw all this, and followed. He informed us that leather sofas had many uses, and were fairly tough. But, even the best leather sofas really couldn't stand up to being flipped over. So, our leather sofa had to stay put, but we still managed to play Poseidon; we just had to leave the sofa alone.