Sunday, August 27, 2006
Sticker Shock And Awe Part 1
Saturday was an interesting day, I must say.
TFMCD found this beautiful dining table she bought for next to nuttin' a few weeks back, probably because it was a glass-topped table with no glass, and it also had no chairs. The glass was the easy part, though the closest she could find is about 1/4" too big to fit down into the recess so as to be flush with the rest of the table. I need a good woodworker to rout it out a bit and we're good to go. Any recommendations?
The chairs are another story. TFMCD can't find the exact right chair. She did locate the chairs that are actually designed to go with the table, but she's not in love with them.
So Saturday, we were running some errands when we came across a Thomasville store in Chandler. What the hell? Let's swing in there and see what they have!
We found some chairs that were fairly close to what we wanted and were elated to find - wonder of wonders - they were on sale! I must be livin' right! Karma's making up for overreacting on the whole banana peel thing on Friday. There was no price tag on them, but the salesperson was more than helpful, She left for a moment, then came back with a catalog and a calculator.
Uh oh. Trouble brewing.
She started thinking out loud as she punched numbers into her calculator:
"OK, let's see here. These are priced very moderately! We'll take this tap tap tap and deduct this tap tap tap, then take 25% off tap tap tap, then another 20% from that tap tap tap, and ah-ha! There we are! Only $335!"
Fantastic! That's less than $90 per chair! We were prepared to pay twice that at another store!
"But sir, that's $335 each."
The question Are you outta your fucking mind, lady? was poised on my lips, but decorum precluded them going any further than that.
I didn't bother reversing the math to see what those apparently titanium with diamond inlaid chairs cost when not on sale.
Hell, I can sit on the couch and eat.
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TFMCD found this beautiful dining table she bought for next to nuttin' a few weeks back, probably because it was a glass-topped table with no glass, and it also had no chairs. The glass was the easy part, though the closest she could find is about 1/4" too big to fit down into the recess so as to be flush with the rest of the table. I need a good woodworker to rout it out a bit and we're good to go. Any recommendations?
The chairs are another story. TFMCD can't find the exact right chair. She did locate the chairs that are actually designed to go with the table, but she's not in love with them.
So Saturday, we were running some errands when we came across a Thomasville store in Chandler. What the hell? Let's swing in there and see what they have!
We found some chairs that were fairly close to what we wanted and were elated to find - wonder of wonders - they were on sale! I must be livin' right! Karma's making up for overreacting on the whole banana peel thing on Friday. There was no price tag on them, but the salesperson was more than helpful, She left for a moment, then came back with a catalog and a calculator.
Uh oh. Trouble brewing.
She started thinking out loud as she punched numbers into her calculator:
"OK, let's see here. These are priced very moderately! We'll take this tap tap tap and deduct this tap tap tap, then take 25% off tap tap tap, then another 20% from that tap tap tap, and ah-ha! There we are! Only $335!"
Fantastic! That's less than $90 per chair! We were prepared to pay twice that at another store!
"But sir, that's $335 each."
The question Are you outta your fucking mind, lady? was poised on my lips, but decorum precluded them going any further than that.
I didn't bother reversing the math to see what those apparently titanium with diamond inlaid chairs cost when not on sale.
Hell, I can sit on the couch and eat.
