Friday, March 9, 2007

Milena Velba Milk Maid

ikea (relatively) near my house

Since I painted my blog this winter color all weird, the pictures hanging on the wall on the right have disappeared, everything is messed up too I have more taste of write.

But I will read through cons, and there or there (dad Sigmund I just discovered and I really recommend) or sometimes here. Everyone only talks about this wonderful Swedish furniture store.

I too now live in the city over the jungle, long live the consumer society, Ikea here I am. I was doing a joy in advance, months that I was dreaming and feverishly flipped through the catalog.

In addition I have a concrete argument ... I settle down.

Well then mid-January and no inhibitions, I drag my Loustik in unusual adventure, a visit to Ike * a (I put the star not to make their commercials either, because you'll see that my passion there is a bit dull) goal: to find a bed. Casually
the city is great and true: walking + bus + waiting crowded bus + metro + change + metro subway again until the end of the line + look for the bus and output gourrer + + re waiting for the bus-walking, it makes a trot (1h 34 exactly). But we will not stop at that.
We eventually arrived, exhausted but happy. . Loustik I leave in the pool ball, I was given a beeper to guess I find myself in the store when my infant convulsion of 8 years.
I do not ask too many questions and take me to Dr. Lockhart (I 'm pretty disappointed that we do not call me and ask one second think Loustik simulating a panic attack but I doubt it will be super hot for me to play with urgency)
short with the assurance of an internal Cook County I rush into the spokes.
I spot a bed very quickly beautiful cheap. The pine snigglar 70X 160 (it is small but no room) I hold out my arms for the modest sum of $ 44 (for real this is really more when you add taxes, mattress, mattress, and fresh different but hey it does not change the understanding of the history of say 44 then say 44).
But hell snigglar point nowhere.
Seller yellow jersey sure, I swear, I promise it's only a matter of hours can be the worst of days but that the famous object of my lust will happen very quickly that I can already take the mattress . And me naive I TAKE THE MATTRESS.
I pass quickly on the back because too exhausted to carry our mattresses, and two or three menus tinkering needed (you get the picture) after noting the lack of buses between 18h and 22 h (18h is currently 23) in the bus we spotted finally get a cab (which is already increasing significantly the price of the famous bed, but good when you love ....)
15 days later and even 16, 17,18,19,20 .... 45 days later ... still no snigglar announced.
confess that I lose a little patience, especially since the Loustik the opportunity to find that the ground is too hard on his little mattress size standard out (otherwise I would have bought another bed elsewhere obviously) and used it to my squat bed mattress on the floor less than one meter wide (90 cm may be, I think it is standard)
While the Swedish / Quebec tired of my calls daily offers me shopping distance because they have the famous bed.
Good had to say earlier.
- hello, then I will explain, a mattress , No bed, blah, in short, HOW?
- but I sure Madame calculated that, delivery, bed, mattress, taxes: $ 94
Ah yeah anyway? worse time let's go

Here I give my card number all goes well, the expiry date-Ok-my-phone number-nothing to report, my address - it's all-division, address my bank-go ... He sniffs the fault-.
I'm French with a French menu. Help it takes check it ma'am. We will send you a hgxgfasgf (he's speaking Swedish there, I understood nothing) by mail and you send back the hgxgfasgf with a copy of your visa card (well I see a photocopier and a fax machine at home, I already have no place to put a second bed of normal height). But I was wrong to worry about the email took 3 days to arrive (there must be congestion in the pipe), so I received at work, returned immediately and I got there very quickly .. . no news.
Well after two days (I am patient) I remember, re-explain my story and I was told that there yes indeed they have received everything needed and the order of $ 124 (it ends tjrs or 4 mind you) will be taken into account
- "huh? What ? how? "
-" oh yes we are sorry there was an error on the first estimate. "

I also learn by chance that it will be well delivered but during the day on weekdays but I'm not particularly worried if I'm not there, a paper on the door show me the address of the deposit to get my order (hence the interest to be delivered)
- "But they're coming when?
- "We can not really answer that question specifically, but estimates place the usual waiting time from 8 to 15 days ... with reservations recess.
-course !

I did not even canceled the order at the time, but three days later after Mathieu message on my answering machine:
"here Mathieu * ike it seems has a problem with our fax is made a photocopy of your visa card unreadable could you fax me the re-thank you "I confess I
cracked
But I still had a mattress outside the norm with me all this.

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