I didn’t go ballistic at Ikea this time

24 February 2008 By Wistar 2 In Great things that I do from time to time

Yesterday the bbf and I spent FIVE hours at Ikea shopping for a kitchen. Usually when I make the Ikea trip, it takes me exactly one hour to curl up on a floor model futon and cry, or drown my stress and misery with Swedish cinnabuns in the store’s food court. But this time I was patient, I didn’t get overwhelmed (couch! fake tv! huge shopping cart! screaming child! couch! loveseat! couch!), I treated everything like a big game of House Tetris, and I even treated myself to a Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla at Pizzeria Uno’s as a reward for good behavior. Still, I will not risk going back again for at least another week, when I have to return or exchange everything we bought.

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2 Comments on "I didn’t go ballistic at Ikea this time"

  1. Christos Vangelopoulos
    24/02/2008 at 4:21 pm Permalink

    i am one of the poor saps that loves ikea even though the stuff i buy from there always falls apart. i got a wooden table from there for xmas and it looks very nice but it’s a bit wobbly because like 3 of the screw heads came off. but i’m sure your kitchen will look fabulous. does your mom still have that little house… that red formika countertop was sweeeeeet!

  2. kp
    24/02/2008 at 10:16 pm Permalink

    Hey, congratulations on getting better at shopping at Ikea. I guess. One time, I was there with a 3-month-old baby (mine, i think) and breastfeeding (mine, I think) and what with all the diaper-changing and shopping for confusing part/style combinations, I had to spend the night in one of the fake bedrooms. I’m pretty sure I was out of there in under 28 hours, though.

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