I Came Up With The Idea For Ikea
Today I was thinking about how when I was 13 or so I was like telling my Mom:
“You know it’d be great if there was like a store that sold stylish yet affordable furniture and housewares and also other odds and ends but no like TVs or any of that bullshit and that had a restaurant inside too because sometimes you get hungry when you’re shopping and want to sit down for awhile.”
Anyhow, apparently this rather ugly and now very rich man (top 10 richest in the world) overheard me telling her that.
Stealing an idea from a young kid. Sick bastard. He’s shattered a part of me that will never be fixed.
(p.s. if anyone from Ikea wants to hush me up, my paypal is andyfox1979@yahoo.com)
Also moving forward, when referencing Ikea to me can everyone please use the phrase “your store” instead. e.g. “I went to your store the other day. Thanks again”.
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Hey, Andy, great idea. I got a magazine rack there that affixes to the wall across from the crapper, and I’ve never been happier! I also got a sack of delicious frozen meatballs. Thank Lord Kromdor for Ikea!
Just out of curiosity, did your idea involve furniture that I can use without first cursing and swearing repeatedly as I try, often with only halting success, to follow instructions given, not in words, but in diagrams that seem to be created by a random picture generator? If so, it’s not too late. Open your store and you’ll quickly capture all of IKEA’s market share — or at least the hopeless klutz (me) portion of its market.
Thanks for coming up with Ikea, Uncle Nee.
Without you, I wouldn’t have been able to get an over-priced night stand for my plain room at my dad’s place. I also bought one of those nifty $0.56 huge blue bags they have there. I don’t even use it, I think I threw it away the day after I got it, thinking it was a trash bag.
Shame on that bastard for stealing your idea and crushing your dreams.
However, I’d like to file a complaint about those horrible swedish meatballs.
<3
Brooke
yeah joel that was my idea too.
Thanks Brooke, i’m glad that you can show gratitude. If those screwballs at Ikea want to start showing gratitude paypalling me some crispies would be like the first step.
I love the whole “we care about the environment, so much in fact, we’re going to CHARGE YOU for a big BRANDED BLUE POTATO SACK”. You get to walk around advertising for that crapcan store and carry a huge blue potato sack, for that priveledge, you pay fifty six cents. What I don’t understand is how charging you for one of their dumb bags helps the environment. The environment needs money? I bet if the environment had money it would spend it on shitty hippie stuff like subarus and LL Bean clothes and birkenstock shoes.
Your mom didn’t mind you cussing?
i was a very passionate boy Rachel
Your store was founded in 1943. How the fuck old are you?
i’m 28. I don’t know what you mean about my store being founded in 1943 since I just said that I came up with the idea when I was 13 (around 1993 or thereabouts).
Besides, did you see my store before 1993? No I didn’t think so. Just because old four eyes had a market in Sweden doesn’t mean that it was like the idea I had. Man this makes me so pissed.
(btw bagel, I appreciate you using the proper “your store” rather than that horrible “Ikea” name)
I blame flux capacitors
I can relate. Back in college, I told my roommate, “You know, with this internet thing taking off, there really needs to be a website where people can post pictures of themselves taken in the mirror and they can write entries–I’ll call them ‘blogs’, because it sounds cool–about what they ate for breakfast or containing really bad poetry. No-name bands and ‘artists’ can make themselves sound relevant. It can have all kinds of scary, unintended consequences like murder, extortion and viral marketing. What do you think?” That roommate…was Tom Anderson. Bastard!!
Back in the womb, I was telling my placenta how it would be neat if we could hook our phones into powerful calculatoravisions and use it for scientific research, and also pornography.
@ Bagel: Sorry! Big Al Gore beat you to that by a few years. Back when he was negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, Banging Marilyn Monroe and helping Shakespeare invent the light bulb.
Your store is awesome. I <3 their meatballs.
You email just got spammed. x10!
thanks ryan. I personally dont like the meatballs that much nor do i like that lingo berry crap, but hey whatever you people will pay 6 dollars for is all gravy to me.
I came up with the idea of making Pinkberry white.
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