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My grandfather's couch
Almost every memory of my childhood can relate with this couch, I remember coming into my grandparent’s house and watching my grandfather sitting in that big brown couch watching TV, and feeling so jealous because I could say that is the most comfortable couch I have ever sit on. I remember feeling so happy whenever I was in the couch watching TV, but that happiness lasted just a few hours before my grandfather would return, and I had to move away. My grandfather and I watched all kinds of things in the TV that was in front of the couch, from bullfights to soccer games and movies, I remember coming home from school, and rushing to my grandparent’s house which is just on the other side of the street from my house, and hoping that my grandfather was not sitting in the couch, and when he was not, I felt the happiest kid in the world. The best days were, when I stuck my hand into the inside of the couch and I found the money that my grandfather had dropped into the couch, sometimes there would be just a few coins, but some other days, I was lucky enough to find a 50 pesos bill. I remember spending entire Sundays at my grandparents house just sitting on that couch and watching TV, because Sundays was the day my grandfather gathered with his friends, and I had the couch just for myself. One time I remember coming into the living room where the couch was, and what a surprise I got when I didn’t saw it in its usual place, I remember getting very sad because I thought that somebody had stolen it, I felt so sad and angry that I started crying, but what a relief I felt when my grandmother told me that they were just cleaning it, and it would be back at the house in just I few days. As the years passed, nothing changed I enjoyed sitting in that couch in high school as much as I enjoyed it in elementary school, I cant remember a single Sunday since I was a little kid, that I did not sit on that couch to watch TV for hours, sometimes I think that that couch is magic, because even when so many years have passed, when I sit on it, it feels as comfortable as the very first day I sat on it.
