The Plaid Couch

The plaid couch was well-built in 1972. We purchased it brand new from a ritzy furniture store. I was not fond of the plaid, but it was fairly inexpensive. Little Plaid could tell stories about my potato chip binges. Many of them ended up in bits under her cushions. Her Scotch guard was remarkable. She is fifty-one years old now. Sitting in my granddaughter’s sorority house. They needed a couch. It’s so comfy, we fight over it, she told me. They had dolled it up with pillows and artwork. It looks better there than it ever looked in my house. Fifty-one and you have never aged, I tell her. Plaid never looked so welcoming!