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[Yeltsu]

LOL , my parents has just bought an entirely new cd-player with all kinds of extra stuff, and of course, my dad wanted a new solution for CD stacking. So we went to IKEA and returned home with 11 small bedside tables better suited as cd shelfs.

Of course, I spent yesterday assembling them

[Georgi]

Originally Posted by Macleod1701

It wont matter how good you are at roleplaying if you go to the Ikea in Edmonton North London, because there will be a huge mob that will riot and crush you underfoot in the name of the 'holy bargain of cheap rubbish'

It really destroys your faith in humanity, doesn't it? Ok, it's a £45 sofa but for crying out loud..!!! At least the person who got stabbed wasn't actually in the in-store riot, but in the car park. I don't think they were fighting over a cheap sofa.

I think the rest of you are making a couple of fatal errors.
1. Never go to Ikea on a weekend. It's very bearable on weekdays. In fact, I went there just yesterday and it was fine.
2. This is for the ladies - don't take your other half with you. Men don't seem to understand the need to browse, to actually look at the furniture before making your selection. They just want to get to the other end as fast as possible, in order to join the queue for a 35p hot dog. Yes, I know this is a sweeping generalisation, but also seems to be mainly true, so bite me.
3. Finally, when you get your flat packs home, don't let your other half near them. Building flat-packed furniture is a one-woman job. Examine the instructions first, rather than looking at the pieces, working out easily how they fit together, and then 30 minutes later having to unscrew the whole thing because there's one screwhole in the wrong place. I built a CD shelving unit yesterday in about half an hour, and I didn't have to take it apart once!

[Macleod1701]

Well letting just one woman do it didn't work when me and the missus were putting together bedroom furniture a few weeks ago, (from MFI though not Ikea) she put her's together quite quickly.....untill I noticed it was upside down and back to front so she had to take it apart. Just proves that rushing doesn't help.

@Georgi - He may not have been stabbed because of furniture but even I would kill for a 35p hotdog if I was hungry.

[Yeltsu]

I think those hot dogs are quite good actually, I usually buy three every time

[Georgi]

@Macleod Yeah, rushing is not good either. Ideally, you shouldn't start putting up your furniture as soon as you get back either, when you're still exhausted from trawling round the store. And like I said, make sure you read the instructions carefully first.

Oh, and @whoever it was who said that Ikea didn't work in big cities - I live in London, it works here. The Ikea in Edmonton that just opened is the largest in the country, and that's where the rioting was. It wasn't the size of the store that was the problem, it was the fact that about 6,000 people turned up at 3am, lured by the promise of ridiculously cheap good, when they were expecting about 1,000.

[Macleod1701]

Stop talking about food, I'm starving and the only Ikea is an hour away and I'M AT WORK!!!! 'Sob'

[Yeltsu]

Hot dogs .........

[Macleod1701]

'slaps self around the face and runs round the room gibbering'

Must have food!!!!!!!

I personally hate with a loathing the ikea near Wembley stadium with it's multistorey car park and lifts that you can't fit your flat pack wardrobes in so you have to lug them up the stairs and break your back then there's a queue to get out of the stupid car park..................sorry I was nearly passing out from rage and lack of oxygen then

[Georgi]

Originally Posted by Macleod1701

Stop talking about food, I'm starving and the only Ikea is an hour away and I'M AT WORK!!!! 'Sob'

It's probably 20 minutes' drive from here up the north circular, but I am at work, I don't have a car, and the work canteen is so much closer.

Originally Posted by Macleod1701

I personally hate with a loathing the ikea near Wembley stadium with it's multistorey car park and lifts that you can't fit your flat pack wardrobes in so you have to lug them up the stairs and break your back then there's a queue to get out of the stupid car park..................sorry I was nearly passing out from rage and lack of oxygen then

LMAO. Well, you've clearly missed the point of the waiting area. You know, where you leave all your ill-gotten goods (preferably with someone, so nobody nicks them, although it is a supervised area) while you go and get the car, drive it round and then load it up. You're not meant to carry the wardrobe into the car park and try and fit it into the lift!

I know what you mean about the queue out of the car park though. See point 1 about not going on the weekend.

[Brynn]

Thanks for the link, Ned You cheered me up for mealtime

[Ned Flanders]

Your welcome Brynn, the purpose of the thread was to put smiles on faces.

[Macleod1701]

It was a Thursday I went, that's what's so annoying. and it was so busy I didn't dare leave my missus in the 'secure' loading bay, it would of been like inciting a blood lust in lions by throwing them meat while a guy stands in the middle of them taunting them.

[Ned Flanders]

Mac,

Why didn't you opt to stay in the 'secure' loading bay?

[C Elegans]

Originally Posted by Moonbiter

ROTFL! Would you beleive it wasn't even for myself? I just happened to own a big car and help with the carrying! It's probably more my "Samaritan Complex" that was at work....
<snip>
Well, therapy has helped.

You crazy lad, good you went to therapy.
I was suffering from a similar condition in my youth: I was not cured by therapy, but by my psychologist education.

Well, they give us McDonalds, Burger King, Reality TV and MTV, we give them IKEA. It's a war out there....

I say Let's throw meatballs at them!

[Brynn]

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