Who Else Grew Up With This Green Seat Sitting Quietly in the Corner of the Living Room — the One Everyone Used but No One Owned, the One That Was a Footrest, a Chair, a Storage Box, and Somehow a Piece of Childhood All at Once… and What Did Your Family Call It Back Then?

Every House Had Rules About It

You weren’t always allowed to sit on it.

In some homes, it was “for guests only.”
In others, it belonged to Dad — especially after dinner, when the TV was on and the room was quiet except for the sound of a ticking clock.

Kids learned quickly:
You could sit on it carefully.
You could put your feet on it sometimes.
But jumping on it? That was absolutely forbidden.

And yet… almost every child tried at least once.

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