Part 2 The ultimate Feminine Trap...
The reason: The spare room, which at present doubles as a place where I work also has a bureau in it. We paid £10 on ebay for it. It is very nice, but is a little small. The item we found in bargain corner, is bigger and apparently when moved will fit with the decor better. you can get the impression here but hold the thought that the older bureau just fit snuggly in our car, please. You may have picked up on the next paragraph.
Picture the scene, as I am stood by the pick up point with a large burea on a trolley, which is made up, as all items in Bargain corner are. My wife pulls the car up and I place the object width ways to the back...And this is where the afternoon descended into the Theaker attempt to bend the laws of Dimensional space! The car disappeared from view. We have a Ford KA, for those who aren't familiar with the size of this popular three door car, it is, say slightly smaller than, for example, an Ikea writing burea. What we were faced with is commonly known as, the letter box swallowing an elephant problem. At one stage I did almost consider putting the car inside the bureau and cutting holes for the wheels to touch the road, but dismissed this as not the most efficient way. I therefore asked an Ikea man to help try and force that elephant through. It didn't.
So we turned it one eighty degrees and tried that way and lo and behold we managed to squeeze it in until only 1 metre stuck out of the back of the car! (which sounds less impressive when you realise the whole thing was 1.23 metres long). For those scientists amongst you, we know it as the Iceberg effect, where the majority is under the water. What we found that we had created was an inverted car iceberg and that the smallest part was in the car while the rest of it was wagging its rear end towards the cars that followed us the twenty minutes it took us to get home.
On a final point, was it really neccessary for the Ikea man who had helped me put it in and secured it to the car for us, to really, really, really need to take a photo!
Picture the scene, as I am stood by the pick up point with a large burea on a trolley, which is made up, as all items in Bargain corner are. My wife pulls the car up and I place the object width ways to the back...And this is where the afternoon descended into the Theaker attempt to bend the laws of Dimensional space! The car disappeared from view. We have a Ford KA, for those who aren't familiar with the size of this popular three door car, it is, say slightly smaller than, for example, an Ikea writing burea. What we were faced with is commonly known as, the letter box swallowing an elephant problem. At one stage I did almost consider putting the car inside the bureau and cutting holes for the wheels to touch the road, but dismissed this as not the most efficient way. I therefore asked an Ikea man to help try and force that elephant through. It didn't.
So we turned it one eighty degrees and tried that way and lo and behold we managed to squeeze it in until only 1 metre stuck out of the back of the car! (which sounds less impressive when you realise the whole thing was 1.23 metres long). For those scientists amongst you, we know it as the Iceberg effect, where the majority is under the water. What we found that we had created was an inverted car iceberg and that the smallest part was in the car while the rest of it was wagging its rear end towards the cars that followed us the twenty minutes it took us to get home.
On a final point, was it really neccessary for the Ikea man who had helped me put it in and secured it to the car for us, to really, really, really need to take a photo!
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