# The Great Father's Day Adirondack Chair Debacle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386 "2017-06-19T17:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/21 "2017-06-20T04:55:38Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > So did you have the presence of mind to start the call saying this: > “_I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!_”? 😃 I actually did! He didn’t get it, obviously. I was laying out there in the yard, laughing my ass off, while Trixie dog was trying to lick my face! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/22 "2017-06-20T04:57:28Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Hey now - I have right of first refusal on Ted! :mad: No problem. But I forgot to specify units of currency: It’s **POUNDS** of Gold. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/23 "2017-06-20T05:00:39Z")
Well, my check was gonna bounce anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/24 "2018-06-18T03:54:43Z")
Doin’ a Chilada in respect! All the dogs are still with me, but no evening sunset relax. Downright chilly for this time of year! Instead of sittin’ outside, tunes blazing, I’m inside, 'round the woodstove. Tunes blazing! HFD to all the Daddy-o’s on the Dope! I thought about this thread because I still haven’t burnt/trashed the chair. I sits there, broken, a testament to my lazy ass. I’d burn it, but it is full of screws and nails. I just can’t see throwing it in the trash. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/25 "2018-06-18T10:55:45Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I thought about this thread because I still haven’t burnt/trashed the chair. I sits there, broken, a testament to my lazy ass. I’d burn it, but it is full of screws and nails. I just can’t see throwing it in the trash. ☹ On Sunday my gf picked up replacement plastic Adirondack chairs. The old, molding, screw filled wooden chairs needed delt with. I used our small chainsaw to cut away all the screw-less wood which went to the burn barrel. The remaining metal filled pieces I’ll take to work and dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/26 "2018-06-18T15:57:23Z")
Clearly you need [an upgrade for your Adirondack chairs](https://hahabird.com/blogs/projects/the-big-chair-building-your-own). I mean, those plastic ones are nice and everthing, but you need one suitable for a pack. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/27 "2018-06-20T05:39:06Z")
UPDATE: My wife dragged home two plastic A chairs from a thrift store Monday night. Faded to an almost perfect USC Cardinal. 366 days worth the wait! Got one by the shop door and one on the patio, by the fire. Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/28 "2018-06-20T06:36:55Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/29 "2018-06-21T23:44:50Z")
Aaaaaaaaaand, one of them already blew away. :sad: 😃 I found it over in corner of the fence. Just a little dirty. No harm. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/30 "2018-06-22T00:03:36Z")
Yea, those plastic ones tend to blow away. I hope you’re not sitting in one and it takes off. The pups will miss you. I know what you’re talking about with 4 animals in your lap. The cats always come first and Velcro their ass to me. Next the pups. The Yorkie can get up here but the rub comes trying to get the whining, obese beagle up here. It’s a test of physics for me to reach her and lift her big ass up without spillage of the rest of the group. I bought this big double sized arm chair just for me and my pets. Isn’t that sad? Yea, it’s sad. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/31 "2019-06-16T22:23:40Z")
The green chair didn’t even make it a year. ☹ Still got the red one. Still haven’t burned/disposed of the original wood one. I keep telling myself I’m going to ‘reverse engineer’ it, and build a new one based on it. I really did like that chair. Some day. I’m gonna use old skis for the back. Happy Father’s Day, guys! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/32 "2019-06-16T22:46:20Z")
When this thread first appeared I said I was looking for a doxie to replace Nathan. Not long after, 7/8/2017, I got Mauser, from the Brown County Humane Society, in Hiawatha Kansas. [Petfinder.com](http://Petfinder.com) is wonderful. Mauser sends your crew his greetings. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/33 "2019-06-16T22:55:50Z")
Glad to hear about Mauser! Who’s a good boy? The crew are all fine, by the way. Doxie’s recovery is nothing short of phenomenal. Took him to the mountain house, full of stairs, (Tahoe is it’s name) and he was running up and down them! :eek: Congrats on the new doxie. I know how much you loved Nathan. Sounds like Mauser is the bomb! Or at least a pistol. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/34 "2019-06-17T01:07:17Z")
I bought my Adirondack chair from L. L. Bean. It cost a small fortune, and had to be assembled, but I’ve had it for probably 15 years and leave it out year-round; I do cover it with a tarp in winter and varnish it every spring. That thing will probably outlive me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/35 "2019-06-17T02:29:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yea, those plastic ones tend to blow away. I hope you’re not sitting in one and it takes off. The pups will miss you. > I know what you’re talking about with 4 animals in your lap. The cats always come first and Velcro their ass to me. Next the pups. The Yorkie can get up here but the rub comes trying to get the whining, obese beagle up here. It’s a test of physics for me to reach her and lift her big ass up without spillage of the rest of the group. I bought this big double sized arm chair just for me and my pets. Isn’t that sad? Yea, it’s sad. I still have the same sad existence. I’m sitting in exactly the same place with same 4 animals jockeying for the same spots on my lap. Oh, wait…one thing is different.😉 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/36 "2019-06-17T03:14:30Z")
I find it next to impossible to get back up out of Adirondack chairs even when they’re not broken. (Maybe they’re made for taller people?) So usually I avoid getting into them in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/37 "2019-06-17T12:10:10Z")
We’re currently watching _Murdoch Mysteries_. Set in c1900 Toronto. Where “doxie” is slang for prostitute. What are you people up to in these chairs??? No wonder they break! (For the record, I find Adirondack’s incredibly uncomfortable and difficult to get in and out of. The only good Adirondack is a broken Adirondack.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/38 "2019-06-17T16:34:29Z")
Happy Father’s Da **Gato**! Skritches to the gang! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/39 "2019-06-18T01:13:29Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Glad to hear about Mauser! Who’s a good boy? > > The crew are all fine, by the way. Doxie’s recovery is nothing short of phenomenal. Took him to the mountain house, full of stairs, (Tahoe is it’s name) and he was running up and down them! :eek: > > Congrats on the new doxie. I know how much you loved Nathan. Sounds like Mauser is the bomb! Or at least a pistol. 😉 The picture I saw on Petfinder, from the shelter, had him on his back with his feet in the air. like he was begging \*rub my belly. \* I wish all the dachshund owners on this board could get together for a Dopefest. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386/40 "2019-06-20T05:59:05Z")
Go look at the new Ted video I posted. I think you’ll like it. 😉 > [@Baker](#): > > The picture I saw on Petfinder, from the shelter, had him on his back with his feet in the air. like he was begging \*rub my belly. > \* > > I wish all the dachshund owners on this board could get together for a Dopefest. The dogs would not allow it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-fathers-day-adirondack-chair-debacle/789386.md?page=3)