The "You Learn Something New Every Day" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Thinking about Christmas already as I leaf through my latest Wired issue.  The fact that I am still getting Wired is a mystery to me, since my subscription ran out three magazines ago, but they continue to send me the issues.  Anyway, as I reach the back of the magazine, I see they have a lengthy article titled WISH LIST which they have divided into five categories of gifts: Explore, Get Smart, Health, Upgrade and Thinking Ahead.  Items on the Explore list include things like a Honda CB500F Motorcycle, a Steripen Ultra bug zapper, a Garmin Virb Elite Action Camera, and a Zippo Hand Warmer.  I'm not really interested in too much on the Explore list so I turn to the Get Smart category and examine the On Food and Cooking cookbook, the NPW Pocket Microscope, The Sodastream Source bubbly water system, the Heat Mapper to check food temperatures, and the Draw 50 Animals teaching aide to learn how to draw.  Then comes the Health list which includes items such as Nike Free Hyperfeel that sell for $175, a Whistle which is really a canine monitor for the dog's collar, and a Remee Sleep Mask.  Are you starting to understand why I didn't renew my subscription?  So far none of this stuff is on my wish list!  In the Upgrade category is The Road Warrior's Ultimate Coffee Rig for easy coffee making, the Trusco Tool Box for the handyman, the Square by Clean Bottle that has a bottom as well as a top that unscrews for easy cleaning, and a Leibal 11+ Felt Case for your computer.  I finally reach the Thinking Ahead category of

gifts and see the full page on the Kammok Glider which is a sheltered outdoor snoozer. As I turn the next page to see what other great gifts I might find, there on the bottom left of the page is a Lancaster Chair.  Yep, a Lancaster Chair.  Made right here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  And, I had never heard of it before I saw it in this magazine.  Made by Emeco, who I had never heard of either, and called a Navy Chair that was developed for use on WWII submarines.  The story claims that it still sells like crazy and will last a lifetime.  The legs are made of ash wood and are crafted right here in ...... ready for this ....... an Amish factory.

An Amishman pictured on the website for the Lancaster
Chair, although it doesn't look like a chair to me.

 Now I have seen full page ads in our local newspaper advertising stoves and fireplaces that you can use to heat your home that are allegedly made by the Amish, but never saw an ad for the Lancaster Chair in any publication.  Wow, I look at a national publication that I no longer subscribe to and learn something new about the city in which I live.  You know ..... I just may have to add one of these to my wish list.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.