We showed up at Ikea this morning a little before 11 am. Here’s Jerry fiddling with the kitchen design at Ikea’s kitchen planning station. For some reason, Ikea just can’t take your order that you’ve created at the kitchen planning station. They have to input the order again into their computers. This took about 40 minutes for them to do. The fun begins.
I should back up. We had to return the Tundra Maple Flooring first. I was getting some attitude from the return lady. One of the flooring packages had opened slightly somewhere in the midst of its loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading again. This slight tear in the plastic set her off and she became the return lady nazi. I exaggerate a bit but for a moment I thought I wasn’t going to be able to return a pack of crappy flooring. From there we headed up to the kitchen department.
After waiting for the Ikea help to enter our kitchen order, we paid for it and headed down to the furniture pickup zone (right next to returns). We were told that Ikea coworkers would get the order ready and that we were to watch the tv screen for 67400 to flash up letting us know our order was ready for pickup. This was told to us by some dude in a bunny suit. We were given an estimate of one hour.
So we watched the blue tv screen.
And sat on the couch and waited.
And went outside and smoked and waited.
And took pics of Ikea and waited. Finally, someone approached us to let us know that our order had been ready for the last half hour. Turns out Mr. Bunny Suit gave us the wrong number as 67400 never came up on the screen. But 67300 did come up on the screen. That was total Ikea bullshit.
At least they helped up load it up fairly quickly.
And here’s our truckload of cabinets, etc.