Not an Ikea shelf

It was one of those things. You know? You could only put it back together so many times. Now the pieces were a bit shaky, the joints a bit loose…. It certainly didn’t seem very solid. And for whatever reason it didn’t seem to work right anymore. It could still do most things it was meant for but one or two bits just didn’t work right. It was as though one of those times she worked so hard at putting it back together, she forgot a tiny piece and now it just doesn’t seem to function quite as well. She thinks it was probably that time it got really smashed up… back in that last move. She was sure she had put it back together correctly, but now she realizes maybe she didn’t. And maybe that piece is lost forever.

It’s too bad really. It used to work so well.