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I really love random emails. I love it when people who agree with me write me a personal email, and I love it just as much when someone who’s pissed at me writes me an email. I take all comers.

I got to know Jada because she wrote me an email about our similar sentiments regarding gaucho pants (also see her post). I also got into a long, back-and-forth insult exchange about tribal tattoos with some random woman because of the snarky little post I wrote.

Tonight I got a funny email from a guy named Paulo. Like me, he tends to hate companies for admittedly trivial reasons, and he wrote me to thank me for my IKEA bitch-fest.

i went out with my girlfriend this weekend. we went to a town that’s not too far, but out of the way so we never went there. she wanted to go to some restaurant there.

anyway, there’s an ikea there. i didn’t know about it, but my girlfriend did. chicks love stores. we drove by and it was crawling with people.

“i thought it didn’t open til wednesday!” she tells me.
“huh? yeah, ok, whatever.”
“do you wanna go see?”
“hm. i don’t care.”

so we park and get out, only to be told by the old lady with bad teeth at the door that we can’t come in unless we have a ticket.

“come back wednesday!” she told us, smiling and drawing attention to all the black stuff between her teeth.

i decided at that moment i’d never ever shop at ikea. i mean, i understand the concept, they let a few people in early to generate buzz, and that helps them sell more of ther crap. i know i never cared or payed attention when people were apparently talking about the new ikea coming to our general area, but where the fuck was my opportunity to score a ticket to get in a few days early?

i have a history of holding grudges against large corporations indefinately, based upon the flimsiest of excuses. i refuse to buy anything at whole foods because once they refused to sell me beer because i was with somebody who didn’t happen to be carrying ID at the time. i have no problem boycotting a business for silly shit, ’cause i hate shopping, anyway. give me an excuse to not have to go to your store, and i’m happy. i decided in this case, though, to research my newfound hatred of ikea on the internet. i typed ‘ikea sucks’ into google and found your page.

i just wanted to say thank you, sir, for alerting the internets to the evil of ikea. i also liked that you seemed to have done your research as well, so i can follow your links and learn more of more reasons to hate ikea. this is great, because now when i badmouth ikea, i have plenty of anecdotal evidence from random people on the internet. that’s exactly the kind of stuff you need when you’re trying to influence people to vote with their dollars, secretly hoping that maybe one day those filthy bastards will go out of business.

so yeah. ikea sucks.

paulo

A personal email is much better than a comment. It’s truly one of the overlooked benefits of having a blog.

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