The Desk

19Oct09

So, she finally had enough of her desk. It’s a dinky little corner desk with lots of hutches, plenty of things to bang your shins on, and bugger all actual desk space. Off to Officeworks to get a new one.

Found two nice ones in price range – sounds good, let’s get the bigger one. Pay the bill, walk it out the door…… and it doesn’t fit in the car. Dammit!

No worries, I’ll put the back seat down. Well, put 2/3 of the back seat down – after about 10 minutes of fruitless fiddling we figure that the remaining seat doesn’t actually fold down. What the? Stupid Corolla. Suneth, if you’re reading is there some trick to it, or am I just a useless moron? :)

Anyways, that’s ok – let’s get the smaller size instead. And – let’s be smart about it this time. The smaller one is 135cm long – got a tape measure, mate? Yep. Measure up – no worries – car can fit 150cm. Piece of cake. Go through the register and adjust the bill…….

……. and it doesn’t fit either. By about 6 inches. Hmmm… maybe we should have measured the box, instead of just going on the table size. D’oh!

So, we decide to get it delivered. And, while we’re at it, we might as well get the bigger size anyway. So, we go and adjust the bill one more time.

3 transactions, about an hour of mucking about, plus some giggles and embarrassment…. and it arrives on wednesday.

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