Trials of a Grouch

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Date: 06 September 2008 22:20:38

While I was losing and finding my Oyster card yesterday, this is (roughly) the day that The Grouch had:

Go to IKEA, buy kingsize bed for tenants. Get boxes into van and drive to tenants. Heave boxes and mattress up two floors. Start to open boxes. Discover that no fittings whatsoever have been included. Go back to IKEA and pick up fittings. Go back to flat. Start putting bed together. Discover two bits of fittings are the wrong bits. Go back to IKEA and get the right ones. Go back to flat. Finish assembling bed, discover slats are the wrong length. Go back to IKEA and exchange slats for right length. Eat dinner at IKEA. Go back to flat, install slats and mattress. Go home, discover wife has waited to cook dinner until you arrive. Eat second dinner (well earned).

And I thought my life was complicated!