The Tablecloth

Why are nice, despicably vinyl tablecloths so hard to find? I mean nice as in vaguely interesting. Our last one was big green and white squares with pears all over it, and after a few days I grew to like it and then became fond of it. Before that I was using a vinyl wall map of Sesame Street as a tablecloth.

The tablecloths get lots of hard wear from all the clay modeling around here. So the vinyl works well as clay is continually ground into it. But as the table occupies a good portion of our living space it would be nice to have a vaguely interesting tablecloth that was plastic and didn’t cost too much.

As of yesterday, we now have a brown-red one from Target, which is ugly ugly, but which I guess I’ll get used to after a while, and kind of works with the big velvet painting of a 70’s crying Elvis that was a gift to Marty a while back and which I finally hung on a nearby door.

The tackiness of one reinforces the tackiness of the other.