I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table

132 points · 13 comments · view on lemmy.world

13 Comments

I both want a picture and REALLY don’t.

The duality of man

I clean it every day, because I see how much there is, so it never gets that bad.

But when I think about what'd be under there if I didn't know it was happening for years, I shudder

It's also easier to clean glass without ruining it.

unknown@piefed.social · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Placing anything metal or ceramic on glass makes the most awful noises though, how do you cope with how loud it is?

Not OP but: Placemats.

Placemats.

My aunt and uncle have a big wooden dining table, and like 50 different kinds of placemats

mkwt@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

My aunt did not like eating peas. And she hid them behind the refrigerator for more than a year.

Moral of the story: be glad it's the underside of the table and not behind the refrigerator.

I'm glad I don't have a young child, for similar reasons

I always have the irrational or maybe rational fear of glass breaking. Any furniture I buy doesn't have any glass elements.

iglou@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don't want glass furniture.

I believe our table (and most tables) are tempered glass, so if it breaks it shouldn't be dangerous.

We did get rid of a glass coffee table though, for that reason