When? All Else Failing

Lesson for the day: logical
assumptions do not necessarily
conclude logically.  Reason would
have it when searching for a
purpose-built item, seek out
purveyors who specialize.

A national franchise heralded
for office supplies, one of many
such to service a large public
clamouring for electronics, they
competitively service a 
distinctive crowd.  Floor displays
whet the consumption appetite
for whatever is desired.

Computer desks, take your pick.
Compressed wood pulp,
particleboard, printed faux
wood-paper surfaces, steel as
fragile as a butterfly wing,
brittle glass - no champions of
quality nor aesthetic value.

Still, the need must be met.
Indecision wracks the process,
comparisons between retailers
prevail.  But a decision reached
and oops, not in stock.  Another
chosen, computer-based inventory
assuring, but oops, sold out.

That Eureka! moment:  in the
basement workshop cluttered with 
tools a solid oak desk of respectable
vintage.  Retrieved, refinished,
endowed anew with a re-purposed
slide-out keyboard tray: in business!