Another fun day at IKEA

Here are ten things I learned yesterday:

1. When the fire alarm goes off at 7:00 am in a downpour, you know that it will probably be an interesting day.
2. If you turn the radio on while you nurse our baby and you have an old battery, you’ll probably get a dead battery.
3. If you ask someone you don’t know to jump your car, and you let them rearrange the cables, your car might start to smoke and your jumper cables might melt into two pieces.  Then you’ll have to worry about what to do with the hot jumper cables because you don’t want to put them in the garbage can and set IKEA on fire.
4. Aside from being useful in case of a potty accident, the spare pair of underwear can function as an entertaining hat for three-year-olds waiting for the IKEA man to have a go at jumping the car.
5. There are cases when cell phones are tremendously useful, but thankfully pay phones are not yet obsolete (and since everyone else has cell phones are seldom being used by anyone else).
6. Tow trucks have a hard time finding people who need their cars towed at IKEA.
7. If your husband borrows a car to pick you and your children up, and the car owner needs their car back by a certain time, he might have to go back home without you if the tow truck is late (see number 6).  Luckily he can at least take the active three-year-old off your hands.
8. Spending the day with a delightful eight-month-old can be loads of fun even in the lobby of IKEA, especially when your three-year-old is in the playroom or with her dad and not tearing around the store watching you for a reaction instead of watching wear she is going.
9. The veggie wraps at IKEA aren’t bad, and they are only $1.99, but three in one day is too many (I should have sprung for the Swedish meatballs for dinner).
10. If you wait until 9:00 pm to feed your family dinner, your three-year-old will start begging to go to bed when you try to brush her teeth, and then she’ll sleep in until 9:00 am the next morning.

Thanks to all the people who got us all safely home, and our car safely to Walker Subaru.  We’re going to take it easy today.