Post #758310 by Ragbag Comics on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 10:55 AM

Hey Freddie-

Strangely enough, our llama is actually the same one that was at Hala Kahiki!

We'd eyed it for years, but it had a crazy high price on it, and we were
fresh out of college, still living in apartments with lousy furniture from the
Goodwill.

When we finally got real jobs, we had just gotten married and bought our first condo
in Chicago, and suddenly we HAD space and more expendable income... so one night after
a few Scratch Me Lanis, we decided to inquire about the llama again, as we
hadn't in probably 6 years. Jackie and James had just taken over, and were willing
to make a deal (by this time it was buried in the corner under boxes and old beer
signs)and that llama was the first piece of "real" adult furniture we bought - HA!

How ridiculous is it that the first piece of "real adult" furniture we ever bought
was a Witco bar shaped like a Llama that doesn't even properly hold a bottle of booze?
Honestly, I think they were happy to get rid of it and couldn't believe someone
would be crazy enough to haggle over it.

Anyway... we absolutely love it. My wife was pretty sure we'd made a terrible decision,
trying to build our first room of furniture around the llama, but she grew to love him,
too, and our collection of Witco just grew from there.

We're actually not in Chicago anymore - we moved north to Milwaukee and bought an
actual, honest-to-god house back in October. Excitingly, that means we now finally
get to build our home basement bar we've been daydreaming about for years (I'll be
sure to start a thread...)

I guess I need to update my TC profile!

--Pete