Retail, then Therapy

The noted shoulder-shrugger (by birth and profession) Jean-Paul Sartre, famously said “Hell is other people”. The phrase was first published in the 1944 play ‘Huis Clos’. I respectfully submit that if he’d been to the Croydon Ikea he’d have said it much earlier.

4 Comments

  1. AndyJ
    Posted January 17, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    Yes, the massiveness of IKEA can make you despair of ever seeing the exit. A friend of mine says that a visit to the Bloomington store is like a trip through the intestines.

  2. Paul
    Posted January 18, 2008 at 6:48 am | Permalink

    It’s particularly irksome when you have a little boy who needs to go to the toilet twice in quick succession.

  3. Posted January 18, 2008 at 7:15 am | Permalink

    And they don’t let you shop online. How 1900s.

  4. Paul
    Posted January 18, 2008 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    Actually for certain things you can, but your local store has to offer those things, which rather defeats the point (not least because we don’t have a local store yet).

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