How do I give real furniture feedback when my partner is auditioning the chairs?
Funny'Tell us why you deserve the reading corner,' my partner said to a wooden armchair.
He answered in a deep voice: 'Leadership. Excellent legs.' I laughed. He named it the Captain and said we'd found our chair.
We were choosing between that one and a plain padded chair. He liked the Captain's shape; I preferred sitting in the padded one. But when he asked which audition I'd enjoyed, I said the Captain's. Now he thinks I agreed to buy it.
We left without ordering because he wanted to check the space at home. Tonight he has drawn the Captain in the corner and sent me a speech from its imaginary references. The joke is fun. The seat wasn't comfortable for me.
How do I explain that I voted for his chair voice, not the actual chair, while there is still time to choose something we both want to sit in?