Has anyone bought one of those lapdesks that are a beanbag with a white board on one side, and if so, where? I need to get one for my niece, and Amazon and Target don't seem to have them.

Has anyone bought one of those lapdesks that are a beanbag with a white board on one side, and if so, where?

you can find an expensive one at Levenger -- [link]

I thought I'd lost mine a while back, and looked around. This was the only one I liked. Luckily, I thought to look under the couch and found the original (which dates back to college)

wait, I lied, there's one at bed, bath and beyond for cheaper [link]

Thanks!

I think I need one with a dry erase white board, but that's a good choice if I can't find one.

Luckily, the only damage was to the glove.

Whew! I mean, I kinda figured if you were posting, you weren't having rubber glove melted to your hand, but...still!

That was the application where I put 'sarcastic' down as my religion

Ooooh. I like. (I also like Jesuits. But.)

Has anyone bought one of those lapdesks that are a beanbag with a white board on one side, and if so, where? I need to get one for my niece, and Amazon and Target don't seem to have them

I'm using one right now AIFG. Target had them hidden away in the children's bedding/furniture section. They're more common during back-to-school, but I got mine off-season. And I recall seeing them at the Container Store as well, of all places. (Oh, mine's not a dry-erase board, just a wooden thing, but it has a nice hinged ...pocket? drawer? thse are not the right words, but it's late and my brain is broken)

Thanks! She may just have to do without the dry erase board.

Lee, you can write with dry erase markers on laminated paper, and it cleans off pretty well (not perfectly), so I wonder if any of the not-quite-right ones have surfaces that could also be written on. Also, I wonder how hard it would be to hot glue some fabric to the back of an appropriate-sized white board, and stuff in some beans or tiny styrofoam stuffing balls - if you are or know someone nearby who is crafty.

I am definitely not crafty myself, but maybe I can play around with it.

I think I'll hit BBB and Target tomorrow, and see what I can find.

Typo, I would've been much more like the 17-year-old, only I would've been so busy hyperventilating in terror that I couldn't have actually spoken!

Susan, I totally understand, if flying (under poor circumstances) is one of your terrors. I would be the same if something pinged one of my deep fears (large growling dogs for example).

But if flying is not a deep fear for someone, and they are already in the air, and know where the exits and flotation devices are, and have taken whatever reasonable precautions are in their power (other than not flying United which is a choice many people make), then they might as well laugh.

In terms of the prayer, think of it this way. Most people in the USA believe in prayer to some degree. The flight crew who might notice you praying are on those things regularly. They are probably glad for whatever reinforcement you give. Hell, if I was a crew member on United, and I believed in prayer, I'd want the Pope and Dalia Lama praying on every flight, but I'd take what I could get.

[On Edit] And I put it that way only because the crew did not know you. Knowing you (even if only electronically) as long as I have, if prayers have an effect other than comforting the person praying, and possibly the (human) person listening, then I'd say yours have a better shot than most.

Oh, believe me, I admire everyone that could laugh under those circumstances! I don't particularly like that I'm a big fraidy cat coward about bumpy plane rides or planes making dodgy noises.

United, eh? I would've guessed Alaska Air, but they're, perhaps unjustly, the airline that scares me the most because of that crash in 2000--something about the fact that it was caused by poor maintenance AND that the people on the plane had 10-15 minutes to know they were probably going to die before it actually happened. If I'm destined to go out in a fiery crash, I'd rather not know what hit me!

Susan, I might be the opposite of you in terms of flying fear. I do ok as long as I simply do not think about the mechanics of what the plane is doing. But for that brief moment when I'm stepping from the accordian-tunnel-gate thingy into the plane, and I can see the metal shell of the machine that will be keeping me from falling out of the sky - the sight of that just freaks me right the f*** out. And then I'm inside the giant magic bus, and I'm fine. Until I have to step through and look at the skin of the beast again.