I moved into this house 4.5 years ago. It was a pretty easy move, stuff-wise, because I hired movers. And though they did tear up the floor at my old house getting the washer out, they only messed up one of my possessions — they broke one caster on a 2-drawer filing cabinet I have.
It’s a cabinet I actually use as a desk drawer, so I open it several times a day. And for 4.5 years, it’s wobbled every time I do that.
Because it wasn’t until today, when I was at Office Depot picking up a new filing cabinet [because I have even more stuff to file than before] that I realized that I could just remove all of the casters from my broken cabinet. Thus un-breaking it. It’s not like I even needed to roll it anywhere.
I hate to admit things like that out loud. All I can say in my defense is that I never have actually thought directly about it before, beyond thinking [every single damn time I open and close the drawer]: That sure is annoying.
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