Self Storage

I passed a sign for self storage units today, and momentarily misunderstood.

I do like the idea, though, of a place you can go to store yourself. Would it be a small box, I wonder, which you folded yourself into? Or a nice comfy sitting room? Would you take yourself out every now and then, dust yourself off and reminisce for a while before putting yourself back? Maybe you'd only use the facililty temporarily, for when the builders were in and you had nowhere to keep yourself, or if you were getting in the way and people had got fed up of dusting you?

It has gone down in my list of potential ideas for short stories...


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