{"id":2273,"date":"2010-09-30T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2010-09-30T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:54:51","slug":"chair-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2010\/09\/chair-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portable chairs these days are of a kind: metal rods supporting a hammock seat and back, designed to collapse and fit in a tubular cloth bag. It’s been impossible to find those web chairs, strips of woven plastic interlaced on a frame of light aluminum tubing; it just folds for transport. Web chairs are more comfortable and to me about even in carrying convenience: their light weight counters the heavier but smaller package made by the hammock chairs.<\/p>\n

That’s before a recent trip to Sam’s Club. Weighing in at 37 pounds is the Kingpin Chair<\/a>. While the box has a picture of a couple of people sitting on it side by side, it’s not sofa-shaped but surely intended for a plus-sized person.<\/p>\n

No photo here because it’s a proprietary item. Click here<\/a> for Amazon’s photo and description. At Sam’s Club it cost a bit over $100.<\/p>\n

The intent here is not to mock big folks. On recent visits to hospitals I’ve spotted at the doors of the emergency room a several wheelchairs, as always. Among them now sit several extra-wide models<\/a>. This is a fact of current American life.<\/p>\n

Something here is worthy of mockery, the cynicism of the manufacturer, seen by the name but mainly on the arm rests. The new style portable chair often has a fabric cup holder sewn in. The KingPin Chair has six cup holders, three on each arm.<\/p>\n

Thinking about a half-dozen cans or bottles lined up at either elbow makes me need to stop typing and head to the little boys’ room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portable chairs these days are of a kind: metal rods supporting a hammock seat and back, designed to collapse and fit in a tubular cloth bag. It’s been impossible to find those web chairs, strips of woven plastic interlaced on a frame of light aluminum tubing; it just folds for transport. 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