While wondering at sisters' today, I just kept seeing the wonderful patina on some of the medicine cabinets she had around the store. Now men, if you are reading this, please place tongue in cheek and don't say a word...if your tongue is in your cheek, it shouldn't be possible anyway. But there was a purpose for the 'in wall' medicine cabinet...to keep those snake oils from spying lil' eyes. High enough off the floor to literally make it impossible for little fingers to reach the baby aspirin, you remember, the stuff that had the great orange taste, that you didn't mind taking...or maybe the whole bottle...we all have those stories don't we.
But today we don't use them as medicine cabinets, for one thing, they are too small for most of the huge stores of medicines the commercials have convinced us we need, but they're used as decorator pieces, especially if they have these wonderful chipped and peeling finishes. They can be hung on a wall, leaned on a mantle or just against the wall...who cares, when the patina is this cool, there is always a place. And besides...who would really want to use them for their real purpose anyway, it's all about the drama...and only WOMAN knows about the drama...OK man, take tongue out of cheek, change subject....and be afraid...
