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    and just when you think you are done.. oh what is that down stairs too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Landy Smurf View Post
    and just when you think you are done.. oh what is that down stairs too
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ---I feel now is an appropriate time to apologise to Banjo Patterson for what I have done to his poem, "Lost"




    IKEA - OH DEAR!
    "He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss.
    He only went to the IKEA — he ought to be back by this.
    He keeps riding that number 41 wheelie trolley, he would have his wilful way;
    And, here, he's not back at sundown — and what will his mother say?

    "He was always his mother's idol, since ever his father died;
    And there isn't a trolley within the store that he isn't game to ride.
    But that number 41 trolley is vicious, and if once she gets away
    He hasn't got strength to hold her — and what will his mother say?"

    The old man walked to the sliprail, and peered up the dark'ning track,
    And looked and longed for the flat pack shopper that would never more come back;
    And the mother came and clutched him, with sudden, spasmodic fright:
    "What has become of my Willie? Why isn't he home tonight?"

    Away in the maze like store, at the foot of flat pack fake wood -light and dark,
    The allen key master laddie was lying stiff and stark;
    For the number 41 trolley had smashed him against a leaning display,
    And his comely face was battered, and his merry eyes were filled with dismay.

    And the dangerous number 41 trolley, the flatpacks stressing her flanks,
    Was away like fire through the ranges of goods and smashing balsa wood predrilled wood look planks;
    And a broken-hearted woman and an old man worn and grey
    Were searching all night in the two storey store till the sunrise brought the day.

    And the mother kept feebly calling, with a hope that would not die,
    "Willie! where are you, Willie?" But how can the dead reply?;
    And hope died out with the daylight, and the darkness brought despair,
    God pity the stricken mother, and answer the widow's prayer!

    Though far and wide they sought him, they found not where he fell;
    For the playroom ballpit held him precious, and guarded their treasure well.
    The painted clouds above him, and the blue balls so close by,
    And the leaking brown balls buzz the secret, and the punctured red balls sing reply.

    But the mother pined and faded, and cried, and took no rest,
    And drove each day to IKEA on her hopeless, weary quest.
    Seeking her loved one ever, she faded and pined away,
    But with strength of her great affection she still sought every day.

    "I know that sooner or later I shall find my boy," she said.
    But she came not home one evening, and they found her in “Bedding section” lying dead.
    And stamped on the poor pale features, as the spirit homeward pass'd,
    Was an angel smile of gladness — she had found the boy at last.

    So heed my timely warning, ignore it and results may be dire,
    If you enter an IKEA, take lots of supplies or you may well expire!
    Using an allen key to cut through the deep jungles of Swedish chattels and goods
    May be much more dangerous to tackle than the evilest and roughest of neighbourhoods

    If you can not get away and enter such a place you must,
    I beg you to be wary as like Willie you may die and turn to dust,
    Please think hard before you go, put yourself right through the mill,
    And at least before you try the meatballs,-- Update your bloody will !!!
    (REMLR 235/MVCA 9) 80" -'49.(RUST), -'50 & '52. (53-parts) 88" -57 s1, -'63 -s2a -GS x 2-"Horrie"-112-769, "Vet"-112-429(-Vietnam-PRE 1ATF '65) ('66, s2a-as UN CIVPOL), Hans '73- s3 109" '56 s1 x2 77- s3 van (gone)& '12- 110

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    One of the Ikea stores has a "manland". Think of it as daycare for husbands and boyfriends

    Manland: IKEA's day-care for husbands - The Week

    PS: All the stores seem to have shortcuts, and you can generally bypass all of the "showroom" areas to get to the "buying" areas. I'm still waiting for HEMA to issue maps for these though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Basil135 View Post
    Ok, couple of things need to be said here...

    Firstly, if anyone can get a couple of those models, drop me a line... PLEASE

    Secondly, Digger, from one bloke to another, from one father to another, from one Landy lover to another......

    Next time you are forced to attend Ikea against your own free will, let me know. Under sufferance, I will attend, and show you the "secret blokes short-cuts"

    Built into every Ikea store, are a series of short-cuts, back alleys, and secret paths that are invisible to women, thus can only be seen by men.

    Actually thinking of setting up a service for like-minded guys. $5 per tip sounds fair to me...
    They got upset with me and made veiled threats to exclude me from future visits (yeah, big threat) when I took a shortcut clearly labelled EXIT - it set of some sort of free-thought alarm and warned them that a rat was leaving the maze.

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    Cheers digger should make your day


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    Hey Digger, 3rd February I beleive for S.A.

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    It's fun in Ikea to get separated, turn around and walk in the opposite direction to everyone else, following the lines on the floor back to the beginning. Then I go to the coffee shop and await a summons from The Navigator.


    My BIL went totally claustrophobic in Ikea and forced his way out a door which led to a balcony with no exit, and set off the alarms. Didn't make him popular.

    We have six stores that shall not be named within a 15 minute drive of home - pampered, we are. Its useful if you want a special - just tour the stores until you find one.

    Nice model.

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    The new building for the STMNBN is going up quickly at Berri. Its all concrete slab construction and looks like IKEA designed it!

    Interested to see how it turns out
    (REMLR 235/MVCA 9) 80" -'49.(RUST), -'50 & '52. (53-parts) 88" -57 s1, -'63 -s2a -GS x 2-"Horrie"-112-769, "Vet"-112-429(-Vietnam-PRE 1ATF '65) ('66, s2a-as UN CIVPOL), Hans '73- s3 109" '56 s1 x2 77- s3 van (gone)& '12- 110

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    Don't get your hopes up Digger, you've missed nothing at the store that may never be mentioned.
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by digger View Post
    The new building for the STMNBN is going up quickly at Berri. Its all concrete slab construction and looks like IKEA designed it!

    Interested to see how it turns out
    Is it going to be the branch that sells alcohol or the branch that doesn't? Apparently the brothers who own the STMNBN had a disagreement about this, so they divided the business into two sections, one with alcohol and one dry. NSW has the alcohol branch, but Qld. is dry.

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