Too Much Turkey!
December 2, 2005 on 11:33 am | In Foobars, Funnyish by nate | 19 CommentsI guess I ate too much turkey this year, because my fat ass broke my trusty old Aeron. It happened last night. It’s a terrible way to spend $900.
I sat on the front of the seat (pretty hard, I guess!) and cracked the back of it real good. It’s completely useless now.
As Dallas suggested, I might replace it with a treadmill!


19 Responses to “Too Much Turkey!”
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December 2nd, 2005 at 2:52 pm
You poor guy. Maybe you should try replacing it with a nice trusty inflatable ball. They have less moving parts to break.
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:07 pm
good idea with the ball-
but i know the feeling man, i once put my foot through someone’s FLOOR!
{and i knew it was diet time!}
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:21 pm
I believe that the standard herman miller 12 year warranty applies.
Hopefully?
PS, if it does apply, it seems like it’s worth $900 of hosting credit. :)
December 2nd, 2005 at 5:19 pm
oh man, that womps.
hehe, good times.
December 2nd, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Hey, cool, someone else who says “womps.” :)
December 3rd, 2005 at 2:51 am
$900??? Why not get a few spares and buy 6 of the $149 alternative. Been using one of these to carry my 6′6″, 205lb derriere around the office for a few months now. Comfy, fabric breathes nicely for you folks who sit around in the buff all day, and comes with a 15-year limited warranty too… What more could you ask for!
But, hey, whatever
floats your boatcarries your keister.December 3rd, 2005 at 2:54 am
*sigh* That “$149 alternative” link is supposed to point to
to this chair from Stables.
December 3rd, 2005 at 7:53 am
I weigh 416 pounds, so breaking chairs/beds/sofas is the norm for me. I spent $3000 on a treadmill, but it just sits in the living room behaving like Arthur C. Clarke’s “Tycho Magnetic Anomaly”. Perhaps it will begin to induce intelligence one day…
December 3rd, 2005 at 1:35 pm
You need to buy rubber furniture.
December 3rd, 2005 at 5:42 pm
That sucks, at least though when the chair broke you didn’t fall in between a desk and a filing cabinet and then have a friend come in to see you stuck and then try to stick pens into your butt crack.
I’ve been using an IKEA Jules chair for almost 4 years now, I replaced the stock casters with some smoother ones but only problems I’ve had with it has been screws coming loose overtime but some lock-tite would fix that.
Plus like the others said that chair should still be under warranty.
December 4th, 2005 at 8:01 am
Maybe you should running by the morning in the next year. And dont eats turkey, only salad =)
And all will be fine
December 4th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
It’s not your fat bum that caused the chair to break! It’s the piece of crap chair you’re sitting on!
Once knew a guy locally that ran his own webhosting/designing business. He had his office stocked with these weird looking ergonomic posture chairs. Comfy as hell though.
December 4th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
Your belly is not big! You’re not even fat! lol. I agree with Jennifer…it must be the chair. How about getting a niceone at IKEA? ::P
December 9th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Oh yeah thanks for jinxing me, I broke two casters this week on my chair. Now I have to grind the nuts off and weld new ones on.
I’m blaming it all on you. ;)
December 11th, 2005 at 11:34 am
December 29th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
This is no fluke, Nate broke my chair about 3 weeks later ….
seriously … treadmill or else!
December 31st, 2005 at 8:23 pm
Man… all the chairs in my company’s CyberCafe are those.
Maybe we could borrow one for you. hmm… Now if only I could figure out how to get it past the guard, 16 cameras, and the spinning security door thingy. ;-)
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January 14th, 2006 at 5:43 am
I’d cry if I broke my Aeron! But as the other guy said the warranty should definatly count.
Best chair aerons, anyone who says go for hte $149 alternative is crazy. Nothing beats them.