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Jan. 14th, 2006 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeMade a return trip to IKEA with the intent of actually acquiring some furniture that's not inherited and will last until I move. In the end, I mostly came away with what I wanted, but I'm not done yet, which is kind of sad.
If you read nothing else of this, don't try going straight where you can turn left into the garage. You'd think that after several months they'd have figured out their traffic issues, but in fact the hour-long trek 500 feet to the right began with a stopped lane of traffic a half-mile from the exit on route 24. Traffic everywhere was stopped, both ways, coming and going. It turns out that there's a small amount of parking on the second level on top of the garage next to the store, but the implication of traffic stopped everywhere is that: cars can't leave the parking lot to get to the rotary; so cars line up in front of the store proper; so cars line up on the ramp coming down from the upper parking; so nobody can leave the upper parking, but they didn't make an effort to stop people from going up there in the first place. Alas. After much frustration we did spontaneously acquire a fairly nice inside spot, but it wasn't from planning or stalking innocent shoppers.
What else? The Swedish meatballs were tasty, but they were fundamentally meatballs and not made of crack. They were out of the under-desk unit I wanted, but another shipment is showing up in 2-3 days. I do have a cabinet that I want to hang on the wall. Oh yes, and my desk is the opposite orientation now, which is a little confusing. This wasn't supposed to have taken all day to do.
If you read nothing else of this, don't try going straight where you can turn left into the garage. You'd think that after several months they'd have figured out their traffic issues, but in fact the hour-long trek 500 feet to the right began with a stopped lane of traffic a half-mile from the exit on route 24. Traffic everywhere was stopped, both ways, coming and going. It turns out that there's a small amount of parking on the second level on top of the garage next to the store, but the implication of traffic stopped everywhere is that: cars can't leave the parking lot to get to the rotary; so cars line up in front of the store proper; so cars line up on the ramp coming down from the upper parking; so nobody can leave the upper parking, but they didn't make an effort to stop people from going up there in the first place. Alas. After much frustration we did spontaneously acquire a fairly nice inside spot, but it wasn't from planning or stalking innocent shoppers.
What else? The Swedish meatballs were tasty, but they were fundamentally meatballs and not made of crack. They were out of the under-desk unit I wanted, but another shipment is showing up in 2-3 days. I do have a cabinet that I want to hang on the wall. Oh yes, and my desk is the opposite orientation now, which is a little confusing. This wasn't supposed to have taken all day to do.
