you are so sweet.
Looking forward to the opening of the first ever store of IKEA in your leprechaun country like kids waiting for Santa. The eyes wide opened, reading the IKEA catalogue and thinking this must be a perfect world out there.
Actually it reminds me of the people of the GDR, after the Fall of the wall, absorbing the first banana of their lives.
The problem with too high expectations is as always that you can fall deep, in this case as deep as the Mariana Trench.
Let me tell you about the experiences the Germans made in 25 years of Swedish furniture invasion.
IKEA brings you:
- overcrowded stores
- traffic jams in the area of the stores
- pedagogical parents, talking at their crying and fighting double-named kids (Jan-Kevin and Sarah-Maria) that they will get an oat cake if they stop kicking each other, cause that's what they learned in their course: "be a good parent in a green world"
- plywood furniture of the cheapest quality
- nervous break downs as screw 14b is missing of wine rack "GRUNDTALBLAH"
- indigestions after eating funny looking food in the canteen
- idiotic names (why would you call a single bed "MALM" ?)
- desperate people trying to find a way out of the mazy store
- long queues at the checkouts
IKEA does not bring you:
- what you see in the catalogue as it always looks different in your house after approx. four hours of assembling time
Don't tell me you haven't been warned.
In terms of functionality, design and price IKEA products are hard to beat. As for assembly, if you follow the instructions with an attentive eye and keen logic then you should be able to get the job done without too much difficulty. Give the consumers some credit, this is a shop you're talking about, not some kind of new religion. I got some IKEA shelves a while back and am very happy with them.
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