Seat held
Mark stays between score two and three. Inez files the card as leave-alone and hands you the kraft slip without a speech.
Oak profile
Harlan reads the last the way a cobbler reads a collapsed heel-seat, not a catalog sketch.
Carbon on the inside radius is a confession. Factory numbers printed on a hang card are gossip. The oak keeps the confession.
Seat walking in
Mark kisses the radius. Standing the lie happens only after Boone confirms you already play away from the ball. Crowding gets a conversation, not a bend.
Seat gone
Carbon hangs off the steel. That six is wearing another last. Nobody here files the radius to flatter a camera.
Chaffee grit dulls a mark until a tourist would call it centered. Boone wipes twice — river water, then dry canvas — before Inez measures. Garage mats in Midland are welcome as a story you tell; they are not the record we stamp.