my girlfriend and i get turned on whenever we go to ikea. are we okay?

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i suspect:

her: turned on by "playing house", therefore a trip to ikea for her is really HOT!

me: turned on by tastefully designed, reasonably priced housewares. i am also 1/4 swedish.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

you mean you like going there or you actually get 'turned on', cause if the latter is true um...........hell.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

uh ... 'turned on'.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

even when it's crowded and people are in your way and you don't understand their weird storage system?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I was so hoping this would be from Hanle y.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

even when it's crowded and people are in your way and you don't understand their weird storage system?

especially.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Watch out for falling V-2 rockets.

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, absolutely: the playing-house sensation is strong enough that the most I've ever felt married was while Ikea shopping with my girlfriend. The whole thing culminated with my hoisting a 900-pound circular rug over my shoulder for her and carrying it down four flights of stairs through an impenetrable mass of slow-moving aisle-blockers -- the sort of modern-day mammoth-slaying bound to give a charge to both participants.

None of which is to say that Ikea is not just flatly an awful awful place to be, one of few places on earth where aisles just wide enough for anorexic midgets are meant to be shared by both dreamily wandering couples still imagining how various sofas would look in their dens and hardcore steely-eyed couples who would gladly kill someone in order to speed their crap down to the car and spend even one less second in the godforsaken labyrinth of home furnishings they've already spent six hours being beaten into submission by. Any amount of being turned on I experienced before getting out the door again was mostly based on a sudden massive loathing of every single person in the greater Chicago area who was not the person I was with.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And then you went home and had hate sex?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

crikey

my gf works at ikea so this all sounds weird and strange to me

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I am scared

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I've only been to Ikea once and it was pretty fun, but my bf started feeling really sick - probably because of all the colors and crowds. Either way, the checkout section was a total turnoff.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I only get turned on by the bike im on whilst going to Ikea!

― Muzzy (Madam Plinky), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

last chick-lit book i read had a scene where they were in the shambling zig-zag queue of people going through ikea, precipitating the protagonists 30-something "i'm going nowhere" crisis.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a cousin-feeling to Ikea love. I was in Heals buying a present for a friend. I was standing behind one couple not much older than me and a middle-aged couple. They were buying proper home furnishing stuff. I was buying martini glasses and belgian chocolates. I felt like skipping about wanting to shout 'I am young and glamorous'. (I can pull off the young part, but glam was entirely done with Heal's martini glasses).

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Either way, the checkout section was a total turnoff.

yeah, that's the rough part. what you should do is make your signifigant other wait in line while you stand outside and have a cigarette.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

My brothers odd connection to ikea Christmas shopping just became so much more wierder in my mind.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly there is no ikea in new england so in store horniness is out. But when we get the catalog its like the new Hustler just came out.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you sure it's not cupboard love?

Aha aha ahahahahahaa. Sorry.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

why are there only two IKEA in the whole of Greater London?

― blueski, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

why are there only two IKEA in the whole of Greater London?

And none in DC!

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim: it's all that rummaging through drawers that does it.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

London and DC are cursed! That's not fair at all. Hell, they're literally building a new one about three, four blocks away from me, and it's not the only one around the area even!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh...there's an Ikea like 10 minutes outside of DC. Quit being greedy.

― Nick A., Wednesday, 23 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

but IKEA in Brent Cross is the size of a small town!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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