Chairs, Friends, Washing, Poll

[slemslempike]

[Poll #827787]


The chair thing puzzles me. My mum was always insistent that if you were using a chair with a back, then you put the back in front of you, like this:



Thus, if you overbalance, and have to step backwards, you can do so safely and easily, with the minimum of damage. Otherwise, this might happen:



You SEE? There could be carnage! It's a deathtrap, and such an easily avoidable one. And yet I see people standing on chairs willy-nilly, and I worry and usually have to exclaim in horror that they would do such an appalling thing.

Comments

[listersgirl]

I usually stand with the back on one side, because I'm afraid I'll somehow catch my foot on the back of the chair as I'm getting up or down. :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

If the back of the chair is against something, then I can have it to the side, or even very possibly behind me, but if it's free-standing, then I have to have it in front of me. All else is madness! Or personal preference. But mostly MADNESS!

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Your pictorial representations are great.

Ahh, but, if you only sort of wobble, you can put your feet back against the chair back and steady yourself a bit, and possibly avoid falling off the chair at all. Many factors, lady, many factors.

Also: Dear Clare. There is a press showing of Stick It at the Nottingham Cornerhouse on October 4th, so I assume it will be released pretty soon after it. Yay! :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have seen it said that it will be the 13th October, and have written it on our calendar! It's even on imdb, aw. So terribly exciting. Every day she breaks the law!

NO. If you wobble, then steadying yourself against the chair back will only result in the whole chair being overbalanced, and you ending up on the floor in a tangle of many many legs. Almost octopodian, and certainly deadly.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

I thought having the back in front of you was obvious. There again, I was given (equally obvious) instructions the other day on how to stand on a three-legged bar stool. This is because:

a) We have stupidly high bookshelves on the first floor landing
b) A total stranger recently stole a cast-iron bar stool from a pub and left it at our house during a party
c) One of my housemates realised that it was perfect for standing on when reaching for the top shelf of the bookshelves, except that if the 3 legs are in the wrong position, and you wobble, you will plunge head first over the banister and down the stairwell. (I won't attempt a drawing, it's just tooo graphic).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I thought it was kind of obvious, but then I only do it because of having it drummed into me, and I am quite likely to do incredibly obviously stupid things left to my own devices.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I stand facing one side, because I am worried that if I am standing facing the back and have to lean over for some reason the chair is more likely to overbalance, because it's already got more stuff on it (viz. a chairback) without adding my weight as well. I have no idea why I think this - I probably came up with it when I was about five.

However, I never stand on chairs if I can help it, because I'm capable of getting vertigo even from being two feet higher than usual, so it doesn't usually come up.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I generally just don't do things that require standing on through laziness, but occasionally, when all the lights have gone, it becomes necessary.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about hair-washing; I put hair in a separate category. I wash my hair after washing my body! Why does everyone else wash it first? (Probably because I grew up with a bath, and you washed hair last in order to rinse it with the shower attachment while letting the bathwater out.)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I shampoo my hair first, and then wash my body while I'm waiting for the conditioner to do whatever it is that it needs time to do.

[gair.livejournal.com]

I know! I wash my hair after washing my body! That is the NORMAL AND CORRECT WAY!!

::is quite scared of everybody now::

(Actually, I think you're right about the 'bath' explanation.)

[gair.livejournal.com]

But then it is quite rare for me to wash my feet in the shower, because I am very* scared of falling over and DYING in the shower,** and standing on one leg (especially last! When there is the maximum amount of slippery soap/shower-gel residue on the floor!) applying slippery substances to the sole of the foot I am about to put all my weight on is, frankly, the act of a lunatic.

*Or 'quite'. Whatever you think is a non-psychotic level of fear.

**Though from now on at least I will be facing the chair-back, which might make that better.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't wash my feet in the shower for similar reasons, but I guess I also assume that the water around my feet will generally get most of it off. They don't seem to reek so badly.

I didn't mean to fuel anyone's paranoia!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I generally go: shampoo, rinse, put conditioner on, wash body and face and anything else that might need doing, then rinse conditioner off. Because otherwise what would I do for the bit the conditioner is supposed to sink in for? In the bath I do the same. Or rather, I read for half an hour or so, and then do the shampoo/wash/conditioner thing.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Aha - people who use conditioner wash their hair first! That must be it (I haven't since I had my hair cut short aged 10).

[owl]

But what happens if you wobble forwards??

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Falling fowards is better than falling backwards, I think. And you could crouch down and put your hands on the back to steady it.