It's the calm act of 2010 and has to do with excessive commercial loudness. You know what I'm talking about. You're watching, I Hate My Teenage Daughter
and all of sudden you hear, "DO YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY ON CAR INSURANCE. GEICO, IT CAN SAVE YOU 15%," at a volume that would wake the dead. But now commercials will have the same average volume as the programs that they so annoyingly interrupt. Glory be.
I know many of you were also wondering how my office was shaping up. Well, I was making progress but then I had a bit of a setback. I bought a rug several weeks ago at Home Goods. It was an 8x10 for $299. Although this is a lot of money, I didn't think it was excessive for such a large area rug. I thought I was getting a bargain and pretty darn proud of myself for spotting such a good deal.
I shoved the rug in the back of my Mini. It was a tight squeeze to say the least. My boyfriend was thankfully home and helped me unload it and bring it into my office. He had to leave but I decided that it couldn't wait and so I tried to lay that baby down by myself. It's a large wool rug, which makes it uber heavy. First I had to lay down the non-slip padding. That shit really works. Once it's down, it's down. I couldn't position the f'er where I wanted it and I started to sweat.
I unrolled the rug, using ever ounce of strength that I had, and tried laying it evenly over the padding. I was at it for a good half hour. That was funsy. When my boyfriend came home, he looked at the rug and said, "I'm not sure it really goes and it's uneven." Fuck. He asked me if I had a pad underneath and when I nodded in the affirmative, he said that I didn't need one because the rug was so heavy, it wasn't going anywhere. Hey, thanks, where were you an hour ago?
I think he took pity on me and helped me roll up the rug, remove the padding and relay the rug. Great. Nice and even.
Three weeks later.
I couldn't stand the rug. No sofa matched it and it shed. A lot. At first I thought that if I vacuumed it often, then the shedding would stop. It didn't and it got ridiculous. The rug coated my socks with its teeny tiny fibers just after walking across the room, and the fibers were migrating into other rooms in the house. I decided to vacuum one more time... just to what? I knew it was a piece of crappy crap. Why was I wasting my time? Because I probably had some writing to do and this was a valid distraction.
As I vacuumed, the fibers weren't being sucked up. Instead, they turned into fiber balls. What? And then the light on my vacuum went off. DANGER! DANGER! WILL ROBINSON! I opened the canister, or rather I tried to open the canister but it was stuck. When I finally got it opened, this is what I found.
Get out of my sight!
My boyfriend and I moved my two ton desk and I rolled the crappy crap rug up and immediately returned it to Home Goods.
The moral of this adorable tale, "You get what you pay for."And I obviously paid for a rug that shed lint turds.
9 comments:
That was great! This was especially fun to read right after my husband's office party (not saying why) but "lint turds" is perfect! Thanks. I'll be checking in often, even sober!
Dani this reminded me of the time my husband and I bought an area rug before we had children. I must have spent easily an hour trying to pick out a rug, I finally picked the one I wanted, it was ordered and then I was called and told it was unavailable but to come back and pick another one. Again, I spent at least an hour trying to decide between two. I got the carpet home in our at the time very small car laid it down and watched my cat walk over it. I then made my husband help me pick it up, pack it back in the small car and exchange it. I got it home and again decided that I hated it. I always have a case of buyers remorse!! The carpet turds would have really turned me off too! Thanks for making me laugh!!
OMG, that is one crazy rug. Which just goes to show you, there's no such thing as a good deal. There's always a catch and, in this case, the catch was the turds. I'm glad you returned it, but I guess it's back to square one with the office.
Hysterical post - love the lint turds but am ever so glad they're at your house because mine is full of canine furballs!
And what a great public service announcment (at the right volume of course!): always wear socks when picking out a rug!
Thank you ladies for the comments. I'm so glad that there are women out there who understand the trials and tribulations of finding a rug. It's world peace and then finding the perfect area rug.
Is that the rug under the fluff? So pretty! But get it out of your fricking house, you have boyfriend and kids that shed, you don't need a rug!
Yikes! Those rug turds look like something my cat barfed up.
I can NOT STAND loud t.v.commercials and loud t.v. volume period. I am sooo with you on that. I'm glad they passed that law. Can not WAIT til it goes into affect. Score one for the consumer!
I know Deanna, it was pretty but c'mon, there's just so much I can take.
Michael Ann- Unfortunately we're going to have to wait until next year but yes, this is what keeps my faith. Thanks for reading.
I know, not until the end of 2012, something like that? Man. :(
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