Why do couches have a gap around the front edge? In many years I have not found any use for this gap. Well, ok, I did find one use. When I was about 14 I would come home from school, get a tray and load it up with bowls and utensils, then scarf down two or three bowls of breakfast ceral while rotting my brain in front of the after-school cartoons. Since I was not supposed to be eating all the ceral (it doesn't take long to go through the groceries when you eat 4 or 5 bowls a day), if anyone came home, I could quickly slide the tray, containing all the breakfast supplies, under the edge of the couch, where it would be safely concealed until I could finish it (or I forgot it until the next day, or worse, over the weekend).
But I'm quite sure that this is not the purpose that couch designers had in mind. At least, not in this universe. In my house, the only thing the gap under the couch serves is to suck in every cheerio, M&M, gummy bear, snack wrapper, hot-wheel, board-book, penny, and DVD case that appears in the vicinity. I believe that the gap may actually cause a slight warping of space-time within a radius of about 30 feet. In this way all the cheerios, M&Ms, gummy bears, snack wrappers, hot-wheels, board-books, pennies, and DVD cases that are left in the room gradually make their way toward the couch, no doubt gleeful in their escape from the roving Roomba or toddler, whichever is worse.
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