Have you ever been to the house of a young couple and note that they have a mostly empty room? There may be a few bookcases tilting unsteadily inside of it, but otherwise it’s vacant.
It’s like the opposite of that room in Poltergeist where all the stuff is spinning around, like flapping books and screeching record players. Instead it’s a void wrapped tightly inside of a cone of silence. All of the rest of the furniture in the house almost seems to lean away from it, exhibiting a combination of respect and fear.
It’s a sign that the couple will soon be procreating. You can verify your observation by checking out the rest of the furniture in the house: lots of hand-me-downs and hardly anything new. Clearly they’re conserving money. And your final clue is in the little looks they cast each other across the dinner table, looks which are not simply “I love you” and “You are my pumpkin pie,” but rather “I really hope you’re not sterile” and “Don’t sit that way; you might hurt your eggs.”
I can’t wait until I meet a guy to care about my rapidly aging eggs.
haaaa! this is great. hysterical. you have basically hit the nail on the head and i am loving it.
Ha! I remember when our house looked like that. For us, we were just trying to figure out how to manage money. The house payment was manageable, but finding money for furniture too? Not as easy.
The look may be accompanied by a birthday gift of boxers, hoping to cool off those testes for the sake of better sperm production. Boxers, not briefs, for fertility.
Please don’t confuse correlation with causality. Sometimes the empty room is _after_ the kid(s) because one can’t afford the furniture, or hasn’t made a sufficient number of older friends to donate gently loved furniture to the cause of empty rooms.
Haw! I’m guessing you’re not visiting a couple in Manhattan, because in that case, it would be a mostly empty 2-foot space cleared in the corner of the living room.