UFO Crashes in my kitchen! Film at eleven!

[veg-o-matic]

This UFO had been hovering around my kitchen for a couple of months...

 

[veg-o-matic]

Then last week...

I came home to this:

 

[veg-o-matic]

Dang!

I really liked that lamp, too.

Funny thing is what happened. It looks like the cord just snapped in the middle. Darndest thing. I guess there was a weak spot or something. So now I have some wire just a-hangin' out of my ceiling, giving my kitchen a nice Hillbilly Look.

Sigh. Geuss I better start shopping again...

veg

 

[Unimatic1140]

Oh dear, sorry to see that happen Bob.

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

Awwwww....

That really sucks, it was such a beautiful lamp! I'm sure you will be able to find one just as cool and awesome as that one.

 

[drmitch]

Eeeeewwww!

So sorry Veg!

 

[frigilux]

YIKES! I'm glad you weren't underneath it when crashed, Veg. Sorry for you loss--it was a cool-looking fixture. It's never the ugly, worthless crap that breaks, is it? One of Murphy's many laws, no doubt.

 

[toggleswitch]

Would it work with the glass shifted to the bottom half, with the top open?

and what were you upstairs neighbors doing to be rattling the ceiling that much?

Bowling?

 

[lavamat_jon]

Ugh! Poor veg!

Did the light have much sentimental value?

Just watch out for any visits from the FBI abou UFO reports in your kitchen!

This reminds me all too well of a sketch in Only Fools and Horses - with the chandeliers. Anybody else seen that episode?

Jon

 

[veg-o-matic]

Hmmm.

I should be thankful that Honey wasn't nearby when the crash occurred. Or Mom, either

No, Tog, can't switch the upper and lower halves; they're not the same. Can't blame it on the upstairs neighbors, either. I have The Penthouse.

Mebbe I'll just go to Ikea and get something crappy.

veg

 

[foraloysius]

I'm sorry for the loss of your lamp. Glad no accidents occurred. Perhaps you should go to a fleamarket or to a few estate sales before heading for Ikea. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a new old space age lamp.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Bummer Delux Veg

I'll keep my peepers out for like or perfect match, that style turns up frequently at mny of the bldg salvage outlets.
Yes, good thing that Mrs. Pope & Miss Pope were out of shard range.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Bob, my heart goes out to you. I had never imagined that happening when all those ladies in the 50s and early 60s were adjusting their hanging fixtures in the Lightolier ads. The fixture was beautiful. Who knew that the what, cord? cable? whatever, had to be checked and replaced? Did it pull down the adjuster thing with it? If it did, you are lucky it did not break the top, or did it?

Json and I went to an estate sale last summer. The only thing I bought and really wanted, I sat on the grass while I unlocked the cargo door. It was thick zoysia grass on a small incline. There was a crash behind me and the thing was upside down in the street, busted. It's for times like these that 4 letter words were invented. Do you ever watch Inside The Actors' Studio? One of the stock questions the guests are asked is, "What is your favorite curse word." They say it with just enough blocking so that you can figure it out. If I was asked that question, I would have to reply, "That is like asking a parent of 10 beautiful, intelligent, loving and successful children, which one was his or her favorite."

Decades ago, a semi-friend of my brother got a new chandelier. It was BIG with lots of crystal pendants. Ostentatious was the perfect word to describe it. He installed it himself; telling my brother how it was well enough supported and that he did not have to put in that silly brace that my brother always used and insisted be used in any installation he designed. Just before the s-f's first dinner with guests almost at the door, the support afforded by the junction box gave way.

 

[lightedcontrols]

ooooooooooo

Honey, so sorry to see that lamp in it's present condition....it was SOOOOOO GLAM!!! Do ya think some super glue might help? :~( Mark

 

[bostonwash]

It looks like the top glass is ok. You just need a new bottom replacement.
I'm glad no one was hurt. It would have been alot worse at breakfast.

 

[filterflo]

Shades of Roswell!! Maybe the Ricardos were singing "El Break-O The Lease-O" and it was meant to land on the Mertz's heads????????

 

[Versatronic]

I know the feeling

I have destroyed a number of great items. Just the other weekend I was vacuuming in the kitchen and swung around and knocked my priced three-teired candy dish to the floor and it shattered into a million pieces. I could go on with other horrible and more expensive mishaps...but...

I just gave a cool retractable lamp to a friend for his collection but I still have one left. I was going to hang it over my kitchen table but decided on a Nelson Bubble Lamp instead. I'll get a picture and you can see if it suits your style.

Nice pink canisters, by the way.

 

[swestoyz]

That's too bad Veg - but plez hold out and look to the 'sales - before heading to Ikea, you'll hopefully find something that 'fits'.

Ben

 

[Versatronic]

Flying Saucer

Veg, my batteries just went out on me. I'll run out for more batteries in a little while. This is all blurry but this is the saucer lamp I have.