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lyc: I went to IKEA today to look at kitchen tables. It is most definitely time for a new set.

Posted by kelly (aka kelly) May 25 '10, 16:31

I nearly snapped while trying to shop, and then it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to fit the damn box in my car (I had to take everything out of the box and stack the pieces in the trunk). Then I figured out that the douchebags in the car across from me sat there watching me fight trying to put the box in the car, and they finally pulled out of the parking lot as I opened the box and put everything in the car.

Not that I expected help, but way to be douches about the whole thing.

arrgggh.

(Now that I'm home, I'm pretty sure the table is not going to fit in the kitchen. Greeaat.)

Responses:

Kelly, how about moving to a bigger place? -- nm - Will Si May 25, 17:17 1
- Um, no, this should be Kelly SI. -- nm - kelly May 25, 17:26
the last time someone helped me load furniture into a car, I realized as we were putting the last thing in there that it wasn't our car - kare May 25, 16:52 3
- heheh -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:56
- and you're planning a wedding on your own? - wheezy May 25, 16:55 1
  - it looked just like my sister's car! - kare May 25, 16:57
I had my first ever IKEA store visit when I went to see Covington Cat this past year ... my favorite thing in the store was the strange green colored - JenBro May 25, 16:37 12
- it all looks nice in the store - wheezy May 25, 16:40 5
  - yes - depends hugely on the item. expedit shelves are the best, though. -- nm - kare May 25, 16:53
  - they can come to your cardboard box and set it up. -- nm - Qale May 25, 16:51
  - well .... so far the dish rack? - JenBro May 25, 16:45 1
    - JenBro, Kitchen Procrastinator. -- nm - the liioulu with the same stuff as earlier May 25, 17:11
  - the desk I got is flimsy, but that's all I need at the moment. Everything else we got (especially the baby stuff) is rock solid sturdy. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:43
- The trick is knowing where the secret passages are. -- nm - CovingtonCat May 25, 16:39 5
  - yeah - some little kid showed me at the very end - tricky tricky tricky -- nm - JenBro May 25, 16:42 3
    - "you look lost, old lady" -- nm - some little kid May 25, 16:43 2
      - more like ... "lookit ...lookit ... lookit" ... It was like that Snoopy cartoon - I was tempted to snap back ... "I'm LOOKETING!!!!!" -- nm - JenBro May 25, 16:46 1
        
        should have drowned him in the ball room -- nm - wheezy May 25, 16:49
  - (this is not a joke.) -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:40
We had our eye on one of those tiny tables with the pop-up middle section, but didn't pull the trigger. - Beryllium May 25, 16:37
I went to IKEA recently with a product specially picked out that I wanted to see in person. Locating it was...difficult. - znu si May 25, 16:33 13
- sometimes I just don't get these joke nics. -- nm - znufrii May 25, 16:43
- Well, if the item isn't in stock, they'll pull it off the floor. I've spent a while looking for items they have in the catalog, only to find it's - kelly May 25, 16:37 9
  - heh ... any time we want to go to ikea, it's a 2.5-hour-each-way trip that, in total, costs $144 before gas and the actual purchases -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:37 8
    - Jeez. - kelly May 25, 16:54 5
      - it's pretty good value for the money - wheezy May 25, 16:56
      - dang, you're not going to Renton, WA are you? -- nm - kare May 25, 16:55 3
        
        no, there are two around Vancouver - but the ferry from vancouver island to vancouver is $72 each way -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:57 1
        
        And you don't even get a locals discount? Yikes! -- nm - the liioulu with the same stuff as earlier May 25, 17:13
        
        (that was for Beryl) -- nm - kare May 25, 16:55
    - (ferries are *expensive*) -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 16:38 1
      - it's f'n expensive dry cleaning those tutus and to keep up the energy required to fly we eat like lumberjacks -- nm - faery union spokesperson May 25, 17:11
- my wife and I usually have a printed sheet of items we want to look at. Finding them is half the fun. - Beryllium May 25, 16:35 1
  - (Oh, and I always doubt that things will fit in the car, but so far we've never had anything not fit.) - Beryllium May 25, 16:36

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