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I was tasked over the holidays by my partner to help a friend of hers move a wardrobe down a couple of flights of stairs. There was to be a handful of blokes (because Feminism) to help do this.
We got there a bit late — because of course my partner is always late for everything — which makes me late for everything. They were already down one flight of stairs, trying to work out how to get it around the tight corner to address the next flight down.
Bear in mind I'm not from my partner's place, barely know all her friends, and more importantly — don't speak the language.
I think immediately to myself "they're doing this wrong" but set aside my doubts as Not My Place. 10 minutes after, no real movement and a small crack appearing in one of the side panels and a dink taken out of some plasterwork, I begin to fulfill my role as argumentative northern twat.
"It's ..erm.. an Ikea Wardrobe. Why ..er.. don't we take it apart? It'll be a lot easier..." (in poor Foreign).
Nup. I'm out of my waters here, evidently. So cue another 20 minutes of fecklessness and someone nearly getting crushed.
So I press my point and start spastically explaining in my most broken of Foreign which bits we should at least remove, making the thing lighter and easier to wiggle around and eventually I get my way. Apparently one of the others there had quietly mooted this before I got there too but was closed down.
Realising how easy it is to take the fucking thing apart (because Ikea) we end up going a lot further and then making it super easy to take the wardrobe to the ground floor and out.
Yay me. But my takeaway from this wasn't my heroism, moral superiority, practical pragmatic and Northern European logic or dashing good looks — it was this:
The person who had quietly mooted the obvious solution before I got there was a professional wine grower, whilst the three other people there who insisted upon their own stupid path were two architects and a guy who works for local government.
Prejudices confirmed.
- i'm lost. what are the prejudices?Krassy
- Architects and people who work for local government are generally useless at life.Nairn
- Generalized entire group of people based on your own experience. Prejudices confirmed.
Slow claps.pango - rightKrassy
- haha, ok - i work with architects quite a lot, so though this amusing, perhaps not. As an aside - how do you work people out, beyond your own experience?Nairn
- uhhhh, wine growers are basically some of the most important, useful groups of people who ever existed and have graced this earth, dudemonospaced
- Yes, and he was the only other person who wasn't a muppet.Nairn
- No Northern European has ever been wrong about anything.i_monk
- ah ,yes :)monospaced
- ha - classichans_glib
- #partner********
- We're not married and we're a little old and too into our relationship to be 'boyfriend and girlfriend'. Better suggestion?Nairn
- 'My boo'.********
- @Nairn i'm going to write it for you: fuckbuddy.
nobody's stupid ikea blueprints should say: YES YOU CAN TAKE IT APART******** - Nairn it isn't just Northern Europe, its how far people are from actual manual work.********
- It's truedrgs
- #longtermbootycallpango
- Why can't people just appreciate a story? Geebus..SteveJobs