Ikea - Mince!

[Pete Cooper]

This morning I was conned into going for a haircut, and when I returned home, still groggy from the anasthetic, I was persuaded that a trip to Ikea was in order. We were looking for a two drawer filing cabinet. Wandered round a bit, looked at a few cabinets, nothing suitable. Passing throught the kitchen gadget bit we remembered about our daughter and the kitchen scissor incident which resulted in a score of daughter 1, scissors 0. Fortunately we found a set of 3 pairs of scissors at 69p and after consultation with the accountant we decided to invest. I carried these scissors past many other shiny things and approached the checkouts. Of course the queues were horrendous, except at the 15 items or less do it yourself checkout. So only having the one item, well actually 3 pairs of scissors, but tied together and priced as one, we approached the 15 items or less do it yourself checkout. Having worked with computres for over 30 years, I consider myself technically illiterate, but managed to press all the right buttons, which in itself is a first but that's another story, until the last moments. A young assistant came wafting over to tell us that you could only pay by card at this checkout. Not wanting to trouble my flexible friend for 69p I made a strategic decision to abandon the sortie and exit.
So to the staff at Ikea in Govan who probably found what were to be my scissors abandoned carelessly near the tills I apologise, but if you could pay cash at the 15 items or less checkout, which would seem to be logical, I really would have bought them.

[Silkie]

Your 69p would only have dragged down the average transaction value anyway. Hundreds of people leave items lying around every day so don't worry about that. It's called "loose hands" in Ikeaspeak which I imagine is a literal translation of the Swedish for butterfingers.

[Julian]

It's called "loose hands" in Ikeaspeak which I imagine is a literal translation of the Swedish for butterfingers.

I think you'll find they call it Käbalschön