How to buy things
1. Go to a tilt slab big box shop on a 41 degree day where the shop air conditioning is barely taking the edge off.
2. Have a 12kg sweaty lump of toddler fall asleep on your shoulder. Its like trying to carry a heated up bag of wheat.
3. Have a cranky 10 year old play the 'dumb insolence' card over and over - failing to understand how to fetch a trolley, failing to carry a blind without dropping it, failing to put the blind down in the spot you asked them to.
4. Get dehydrated and irrationally enraged with other shoppers/the lighting/the made-in-china crappy quality of everything.
5. Stare for 20 minutes at some blinds. Despite spending a week laying the floor tiles in the room you need the blinds for, you cannot remember what colour they are. Same goes for the toddlers room, despite spending several days painting it yourself.
6. Give up, grab some blinds that you are guessing aren't right and go home.
7. Find out that for the FIRST TIME EVER, YOU GOT THE COLOURS RIGHT.
2. Have a 12kg sweaty lump of toddler fall asleep on your shoulder. Its like trying to carry a heated up bag of wheat.
3. Have a cranky 10 year old play the 'dumb insolence' card over and over - failing to understand how to fetch a trolley, failing to carry a blind without dropping it, failing to put the blind down in the spot you asked them to.
4. Get dehydrated and irrationally enraged with other shoppers/the lighting/the made-in-china crappy quality of everything.
5. Stare for 20 minutes at some blinds. Despite spending a week laying the floor tiles in the room you need the blinds for, you cannot remember what colour they are. Same goes for the toddlers room, despite spending several days painting it yourself.
6. Give up, grab some blinds that you are guessing aren't right and go home.
7. Find out that for the FIRST TIME EVER, YOU GOT THE COLOURS RIGHT.