Monday, May 26, 2014

A Tale of Two Idiots

Mr. and Mrs. Idiot went to pick up their new 6 drawer dresser and were too excited/cheap to have it delivered. Instead, they let the store employees take out the drawers and load it, face up, in Mr. Idiot's van, with the drawers shoved in wherever possible. This, despite the fact the dresser would have to be carried down a flight and a half of stone steps to get to the house, and then down another 4 steps to get to the bedroom and should have been carried by strapping young men. I should also specify that Mr. Idiot is close to retirement age and healing from a cracked vertebrae and Mrs. Idiot is 5'5, middle aged and a wee bit soft in the biceps. The dresser got badly scraped from rubbing against the drawers and the roof of Mr. Idiot's van. Then, after a challenging trip down the stairs, the Idiot couple put the drawers back in... and Mrs. Idiot immediately broke the mechanism on drawer number 6, leaving it stuck halfway open. Now the two idiots, who apparently deserve each other, have to have the dresser picked up, repaired, and spot refinished and Mrs. Idiot must continue storing elements of her vast wardrobe in plastic drawers under the bed.