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9/9/12 11:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyOh, IKEA.
To be fair I should not have gone there on Labor Day when one million students are getting ready to start college. But this makes all my attempts to buy furniture in tiny quantities and haul it home on the subway look almost sensible.
I bought a couch. It is hard to bring a couch home on the subway. So I scheduled a delivery. They said that I should just inform the delivery company, when they called, that I needed an evening delivery and it would all be okay.
So, one week later, the delivery company calls, and explains to me very slowly and carefully that actually I needed to call IKEA and do a time stop, and that would be an extra $50 on top of what I'd already paid for the delivery. Keep in mind I am already freaking out because why did I buy a couch when I am moving every year and it's going to be so expensive to keep moving it, and it's so expensive to buy furniture, and why is it so expensive to be an adult?
So I called IKEA back and I think by now I've burned through most of the minutes on my cell phone just with being on hold. And, yes, I'm going to have to do a time stop, and yes it's going to be $50 extra, and they won't give me a break on it even though it makes no sense that no one told me at the time about the extra charge, and finally they mention that they can deliver on weekends.
Soon I will have a couch.
If nothing else goes wrong.
To be fair I should not have gone there on Labor Day when one million students are getting ready to start college. But this makes all my attempts to buy furniture in tiny quantities and haul it home on the subway look almost sensible.
I bought a couch. It is hard to bring a couch home on the subway. So I scheduled a delivery. They said that I should just inform the delivery company, when they called, that I needed an evening delivery and it would all be okay.
So, one week later, the delivery company calls, and explains to me very slowly and carefully that actually I needed to call IKEA and do a time stop, and that would be an extra $50 on top of what I'd already paid for the delivery. Keep in mind I am already freaking out because why did I buy a couch when I am moving every year and it's going to be so expensive to keep moving it, and it's so expensive to buy furniture, and why is it so expensive to be an adult?
So I called IKEA back and I think by now I've burned through most of the minutes on my cell phone just with being on hold. And, yes, I'm going to have to do a time stop, and yes it's going to be $50 extra, and they won't give me a break on it even though it makes no sense that no one told me at the time about the extra charge, and finally they mention that they can deliver on weekends.
Soon I will have a couch.
If nothing else goes wrong.