I live in the sort of household where it’s not unusual to be standing with two filled dinner plates wondering where the dining table is.

Let’s see, it was in the kitchen last month, then we moved it to mop the floor and decided it fit better in the spare room. But after a cat gave birth in the tool shed, there was a problem with too many tools and we had to fill the spare room with extra tools that wouldn’t fit elsewhere. So we moved the table again.

But where?

Nobody can accuse us of not being creative decorators. I remember our dining table used to be in the living room, but once we got the bookcases up, it no longer fit there. It landed in the hallway, but that was too tight a fit.

Hey, who needs a dining room? We are innovate to keep finding a new (sometimes even better) home for the wandering table.

Imagine having guests over for dinner. You invite them to sit down, only to notice there is no longer a table where you though it would be. You’ve sent them to the wrong room. "Sorry, the table was in here last week," you explain. "I‘ll have to go look for it."

"No table in here," the ever-so-helpful husband calls out from the kitchen. Total embarrassment as your guests stare you down.

The chicken is getting cold. Now where did we put that table this time?

This essay originally appeared in Woman of a Certain Age 

Author's Biography

An American freelancer who moved to Europe in 1974, my publishing credits include Woman's Day, Cats, Transitions Abroad, Boards, The Educated Traveler, Bride Again, Radio World and World Travel & Cuisine. 

I am editor of the weekly e-zines IslandMania  and InsiderEuropa  and the monthly e-zine Kafenio. 

I live on the remote Greek island of Karpathos in the middle of the Aegean, surrounded by goats and cats. 

E-mail Roberta at rbj@kafeniocom.com

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