The world's gone mad

well maybe just little bits of it... or in this case just a certain well know Swedish furniture retailer. There I was minding my own business, buying a new coffee table. All seemed business as usual. I have shopped there before... if fact I don;t think there is a room in my house that hasn't got something on floor, walls or ceiling that hasn't previously been in the IKEA stock room.

I loaded the cardboard wrapped item in the back of the car, drove it home (via a slight detour to the cinema.. more of that later , if I can be bothered boring you with yet more tedium) got it home and un packed it and readied myself to "assemble".

It's then that it happened.

Not quite a reversal of the earths magnetic field..
nor a shifting of the poles....
but trust me...
in my kitchen, at 11.15pm something shocking happened.

There was no Allen Key!! *gasp*... and not only there was no Allen key.. but there was nothing requiring the use of an Allen key either! I considered alerting the UN.. or at the very least the DTI.

I thought it was Swedish law that said every item sold in IKEA has to come with an Allen key. I'm sure candles I've bought from there have had little metal keys selotaped to the wax... "just in case"

In fact the whole thing went together with only a screwdriver ( and a pair of pliers - not mentioned in the instructions but required ) and a fair degree of sprawling on the carpet. It took me a while to recover from the shock.