question:

What do you do when you've just moved into a new apartment, and you don't have a table, and you really need a table - for many reasons - art projects, dinner parties, letter-writing... and then you find your DREAM table, your maple top work table with vintage industrial base table, and you call the very nice man down at Cleveland Art on Hewitt Street, and you ask him the price, and you gulp a little as he responds "Well... I've been asking $2500, but I'd consider taking $1800," and you think to yourself, lovely as that offer is, it's still more than your monthly rent. What do you do? You daydream about asking him if he'll consider payment in monthly installments is what you do. Even though you already know the answer to that one.