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Lalwendë · 09-12-2007, 02:43 PM

I assign whoever decided to sell things like rugs with Dragons on them in IKEA. This is A Very Good Thing.

And it even more deserves to go to The Shire because a visit to IKEA is in itself like Frodo's journey...the warehouse section where you try to find the Groett and Tatt parts that you need is Mordor; the towering, bleak shelves which do not contain your needed new chair parts are Mount Doom; and the Cracks of Doom are the greedy checkouts ready to swallow up golden credit cards...here you battle not with Gollum but with the packaging of your heavy Groett and Tatt because the barcode is helpfully (inevitably) on the bottom of a box of super-heavy MDF (which tears as you manhandle it over to find the sinister barcode, thus losing the all-important allen key in the process).

The Field of Cormallen is the hotdog stand on the other side. Bliss. Though you have the Scouring of the Shire to get through with the ridiculous loading bay due to the 'no troilleys in the car park' policy, something that could easily have been dreamt up by Saruman.

09-12-2007, 02:43 PM	#963
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,750	I assign whoever decided to sell things like rugs with Dragons on them in IKEA. This is A Very Good Thing. And it even more deserves to go to The Shire because a visit to IKEA is in itself like Frodo's journey...the warehouse section where you try to find the Groett and Tatt parts that you need is Mordor; the towering, bleak shelves which do not contain your needed new chair parts are Mount Doom; and the Cracks of Doom are the greedy checkouts ready to swallow up golden credit cards...here you battle not with Gollum but with the packaging of your heavy Groett and Tatt because the barcode is helpfully (inevitably) on the bottom of a box of super-heavy MDF (which tears as you manhandle it over to find the sinister barcode, thus losing the all-important allen key in the process). The Field of Cormallen is the hotdog stand on the other side. Bliss. Though you have the Scouring of the Shire to get through with the ridiculous loading bay due to the 'no troilleys in the car park' policy, something that could easily have been dreamt up by Saruman. __________________ Gordon's alive!