As it turns out you can open more than one drawer at a time , and you can open close the top with the drawers open then close them most of the way so you don't have to keep the top open.
I don't know what the deal was yesterday.
I didn't use loctite because I had to loosen and tighten various bolts to persuade everything to line up.
Now as far as the color goes, Green is both of our favorite color and I think this Color is real nice.
He loves frogs, he's got multiple frog tattoos, and his childhood nickname was frog.
So naturally I ordered him a nice 5x7.5 frog decal to go on top.