ACK! Never go to IKEA during a boxing week sale! Evil awaits! Just getting there was an adventure. The rail line we were going to take was being serviced so we had to take a bus to get to the tube to switch to another tube to switch to another tube to travel to far off Neasdon. Upon arrival we discovered that the ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE WORLD (all 6 billion people) were wedged into IKEA that day.
Others would have fled immediately. But we fortified ourselves with Swedish Meatballs and plunged into the melee. Approximately two hours later we had managed to fight and squirm our way to the warehouse where you can actually take hold of your desires. Unfortunately, the bookcase we had travelled and fought to obtain was not there on the shelves. Our trip had been in vain.
And not only that the weather was crap and Vicki had to put up with this pathetic excuse for an umbrella.