Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by Slater

Davenport (couch)

My grandmother called the sofa a davenport. We would mock her and call it a diving board and take off running and dive onto it. When she wasn't watching of course. Which reminds me, don't ever dive face first onto a sofa with those clear plastic covers on them. Always hit shirt or socks first. When you hit face (skin)first you tend to stop way faster than you were expecting to. Don't ask me how I know.;-)