>My bed was finally delivered yesterday. A scrawny young man turned up at the door and announced that he was delivering my bed. I looked past him for the other young, strong men that had come with him but he appeared to be all alone.
“Where shall I put it?”
“Well, my bedroom is on the first floor.”
“I don’t deliver to the first floor. I can leave the bed in the garage though.”
“I don’t sleep in the garage, and besides there’s no room there. I’ve been through this with the shop and they have told me that it had been sorted.”
The poor man looked upset and angry. He called Trendhopper, the shop that sold me the bed. They were of absolutely no use and finally I suggested calling a friend to help him after the delivery man threatened to take everything back to Trendhopper to which I pointed out to him would be theft. He seemed OK with that, and then Quarsan turned up too making a difficult job slightly easier. You try hauling a wrought-iron bed through Coralie’s (open) windows.
As he left I tipped him. He had been kind enough to charge me the standard delivery rate and was going straight round to Trendhopper to get the rest. I didn’t give much, but something that would go into his pocket and not his boss’s. Enough for 10 beers. Or 3 packets of fags.
Then Quarsan and I started assembling the bed.
Cue much swearing.
Something wasn’t quite right though….
There were only 2 bars to hold up the mattress. That didn’t look right.
So I called the shop again.
“But you didn’t order a mattress-support.”
“You don’t have to be Einstein to work out that one is needed though, do you? I shall never shop with you again.”
Fortunately, my old bed was the same size and so we used the old support which is still in good nick, added the mattress and look! a sexy new bed.
The Twat lay on it and then muttered: “I prefer the old mattress.”
Fat sod.
Now I’m surrounded by bubble-wrap and lots and lots of carton. Help.
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looks good!
At last those photographs of bedroom action. Just as saucy as I had hoped.
Lovely new bed!
(It does look a little bit flimsy though, is it up to ASD?)
That ‘mattress support’ trick is used to hide the full cost of the bed…
I would have thought those bits I can see would have gone up your stairs – if they were taken out of the packaging (just getting my coat now…)
Well it was inevitable that it was not going to run smoothly. I love the line “I don’t sleep in the garage!” Hilarious!
Is that you crying at the end, tissue in hand??
Nice bed, nice room and view. It all reminds me of the tropics, somewhere in Jamaica.
10 beers? sounds a more than decent tip to me…
ha! when we had our bed delivered from ikea they did the same trick with the mattress support. one year on and i still swear alot when i think about it.
cc, all I can say is thank god we didn’t destroy the old one.
Had a very similar headboard to that once and it was a huge mistake. You can’t lean against it when you’re sitting up because there’s no support and pillows and stuff falls through it. Really uncomfortable. Too late now. If only you’d asked.
Surely you will really hurt your head on that headboard when Q gets a head of steam up?!
Richard/John – my last bed was familiar so I know about the reading bit. I don’t like reading in bed and that mattress is for lying on. All day long.
Your scary bed buying story has me afraid to buy a new bed. Yours is very nice though!
Very Belgian and art deco (or is it art nouveau? – always get those mixed up)
Are you sneezing or crying (with joy) in the last shot?
So you have to buy the matress support seperately in Belgium too?
Sweet dreams
David, in the last shot, I was blowing my nose. Q had to take a photo of that though, didn’t he. Bed is not Art-nouveau …. deco?
Anji, yes, mattress support comes separately here too. Didn’t when I bought my old bed – but then, that was a PROPER bed shop, dealing only in beds.
Zed,
It looks lovely. Does this mean annual shag day will be more productive now that you have a proper bed?
What’s up with “I don’t deliver to the first floor?” he’s a delivery guy, that’s his job.
MrN, ASD may possibly take place next year. Any ‘slip-ups’ and I’m sure you will want to be informed.
As for delivery. This is Belgium. Last shop did it – at not cost at all – this shop is crap. Don’t even go there. They sell loo-roll holders for Â30 or something. Madness, I tells ya, madness.
Fabulous. Should be worth another ASD then thrown in between.
Ralf , please, don’t over-expect it. Annual = once a year en anglais, tu sais.
I think it’s just lovely.
nice bed
Haha,
Fortunately delevery people have always been good to me.
I don’t believe the bed did not come with matres uspports though, that is, to put it bluntly, fucking insane.
You should report them to trading standards just to fuck their shit up.
Tell them, you didn’t get the bed you asked for and liken the product you received to a kettle without the heating fillament.
What an ordeal! I’m glad it all worked out in the end, it’s a very nice bed!
I see it came with a handy bar to attach your handcuffs.
All ready for anal shag day then. Mind you, I understand why you’d only do that once a year.
May I recommend Meublia for future purchases? My new wardrobe was German, very solid, delivery and assembly included in the price, and not hugely more expensive than the same size product from Ikea. And I suspect they are more honest than the tax-dodging Swedes. Although, being Belgian, I wouldn’t bet money on that.
I couldn’t make up my mind whether the bed was thrown together in the Art Nouveau or Deco style, but I finally came to the conclusion that is was in the early Slum style.
Incidently my neighbours wrought iron fence is the same design as your headboard.
Lol…I feel your pain! I was left to re-build our bed when you know who had it literally collapse under him (heh)…..conveniently (for him) the night before he went away on business!!!
Anon – where is that? I’m in desperate need of bookshelves…
Bubble-wrap and carton? Under the bed,naturellement………
a – bubble-wrap for sending all those books that people are ordering (cough, splutter) and the carton and the polystyrene blocks have made it to the garage. Probably forever.
nice bed
Looks good – if it feels good it’ll be worth all the sweat and angst.
Well done!
I am speechless with joy at your acquisition of a new bed.
Not literally, of course.
Me – speechless – unpossible!
Now there’s a bed I would want to spend a night in! How’s tomorrow?