It's not the new year until....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

IKEA starts airing the ads on TV where the woman leaving IKEA looks at her receipt and, running toward the parking lot as fast as she can, begins shouting at her husband/significant other behind the wheel of the waiting car, "Start the car! Start the car!"

It was just on. That's the first one of the year for me, and it was on two times in a row.

[True Dough]

1. It would be fitting

if the family had to assemble the car in the parking lot before being able to drive away.

[2naSalit]

2. I got a mattress from Ikea as a gift

from a friend a few years ago and I wanted to get another recently. I wanted to order online, sort of since I hate shopping online and avoid it as much as I can, but I was going to visit a large city where there is an actual store so I thought I would go and see the store and whether I might get a good deal there.

The friend who bought the Ikea gift said her husband wouldn't go in one of those store and he hates it, but she didn't say why.

I get to the big city and tell my host, my sister, I want to go to the Ikea store and she was good with that. We go to the Ikea store and she decides to slip through the register row and ends up right where I wanted to be in the store. The employees saw the rest of us, my nieces were with me, and told us to go around... we couldn't get my sister's attention so we had to go around. No problem, I'm thinking... until I get half way through the place and find a store map only to discover that I'm in a fucking MAZE!!! Now I'm kind of pissed because this isn't a small store and who knows how long my sister will wait and then start looking for us thus potentially trapping us like the guy stuck on the MBTA!

I ordered my purchase online after I got home and that wasn't all that pleasant either.

It's a fucking maze with one route in/through that must be completed to exit! I might buy something from them in the future but I sure as hell will never enter another of those stores without being forced against my will.

I told my friend of my experience and she laughed and said that's why her husband hates them too.