sketchy trip to Ikea
So today was my trip to Ikea...finally. I've been meaning to go for quite a while, and i know i'm going to end up going again, because stuff there is so cheap, and i can't carry everything i want back with me.
it was really a shitty adventure. I had class today until 5 pm, and then took the U6, my subway line, all the way to the end, where i could catch a bus that ran out into this middle of nowhere shopping center. so it took about 20 or so minutes to get all the way to the end of my subway line, then i waited for about 10 minutes for the bus. not bad. it was then about 5:40. took til about 6:05 to get to Ikea on these dark sketchy narrow roads...but the store was literally right across the street from the bus stop. unfortunately, the last bus back to Garching-Forschungszentrum (the last stop on U6) was at 6:40, so i planned on hurrying.
now i don't know how many of you have been to an Ikea, but you definitely can't "hurry" through it. you walk through all the displayed rooms with all the furniture prettily set up, and mark down what things you want. i was really there to get a matratzeauflage (like a mattress pad), and nothing else. i had considered getting a futon, but trying to get that back to my apartment without a car would have been quite a task. so after eventually finding what i wanted, i scurried down through to pick it up underneath, where they have all the stuff packed up in boxes. again, unfortunately it was in the "back room" or something, so i paid for it at the cash register and had to go around the side to pick it up.
by this time it was 6:35, and i was worried about making the bus. i knew there was one that would come at 7:20 to get me to the Eching train center, but that would mean a gigantic roundabout trip down through the city center to get eventually back up to where my aparment was. after waiting for literally a half hour, the guy comes out and says sorry, we dont have this anymore, you have to go back inside and get a refund. i waited for a full THIRTY MINUTES! come on! that's enough time to look in the fucking computer and see that you don't have it anymore! the shittiest thing is the poster next to where he was standing advertising "7 minute delivery or we buy you a drink!"
i chewed him out as best i could in german, asking him why he was just standing around instead of looking in the computer to tell me they had no more (he was seriously just standing around, im not being a dick...). but unfortunately i didn't know the words for "incompetent piece of shit, you made me miss my bus."
i got my money back inside, knew i was going to miss the 7:20 bus to the Eching train center (the last one), and asked how to get there by foot. "oh, 15-20 minute walk...straight and then left."
i quickly bought another pad, cheaper and i could actually just go pick it up myself, and set off on my journey.
think about the sketchiest unlit road next to train tracks you can, and that was this road. i walked in the dark carrying my bookbag and all this shit from ikea, the pad, a frying pan and a blanket for about 20 minutes. the trains would like whizz past me, and sketchy dudes on bikes would ride by every 5 minutes or so.
quite an adventure.
it was really a shitty adventure. I had class today until 5 pm, and then took the U6, my subway line, all the way to the end, where i could catch a bus that ran out into this middle of nowhere shopping center. so it took about 20 or so minutes to get all the way to the end of my subway line, then i waited for about 10 minutes for the bus. not bad. it was then about 5:40. took til about 6:05 to get to Ikea on these dark sketchy narrow roads...but the store was literally right across the street from the bus stop. unfortunately, the last bus back to Garching-Forschungszentrum (the last stop on U6) was at 6:40, so i planned on hurrying.
now i don't know how many of you have been to an Ikea, but you definitely can't "hurry" through it. you walk through all the displayed rooms with all the furniture prettily set up, and mark down what things you want. i was really there to get a matratzeauflage (like a mattress pad), and nothing else. i had considered getting a futon, but trying to get that back to my apartment without a car would have been quite a task. so after eventually finding what i wanted, i scurried down through to pick it up underneath, where they have all the stuff packed up in boxes. again, unfortunately it was in the "back room" or something, so i paid for it at the cash register and had to go around the side to pick it up.
by this time it was 6:35, and i was worried about making the bus. i knew there was one that would come at 7:20 to get me to the Eching train center, but that would mean a gigantic roundabout trip down through the city center to get eventually back up to where my aparment was. after waiting for literally a half hour, the guy comes out and says sorry, we dont have this anymore, you have to go back inside and get a refund. i waited for a full THIRTY MINUTES! come on! that's enough time to look in the fucking computer and see that you don't have it anymore! the shittiest thing is the poster next to where he was standing advertising "7 minute delivery or we buy you a drink!"
i chewed him out as best i could in german, asking him why he was just standing around instead of looking in the computer to tell me they had no more (he was seriously just standing around, im not being a dick...). but unfortunately i didn't know the words for "incompetent piece of shit, you made me miss my bus."
i got my money back inside, knew i was going to miss the 7:20 bus to the Eching train center (the last one), and asked how to get there by foot. "oh, 15-20 minute walk...straight and then left."
i quickly bought another pad, cheaper and i could actually just go pick it up myself, and set off on my journey.
think about the sketchiest unlit road next to train tracks you can, and that was this road. i walked in the dark carrying my bookbag and all this shit from ikea, the pad, a frying pan and a blanket for about 20 minutes. the trains would like whizz past me, and sketchy dudes on bikes would ride by every 5 minutes or so.
quite an adventure.
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