Ugghhhh.

Why are furniture salesmen/women so flippin' annoying?? They're worse than used car sales people. We've been looking for a new dining room table. We found the one we liked, got the specs and decided we'd get that one. That was about 3 weeks ago. Today, we decided to go get it. First of all, don't be fooled by the false advertising of the Value City Furniture 'sale'. Nothing is on sale there, ever. If you don't believe me, shop there on a regular basis and you'll see. They have the Kohl's syndrome. Where everything is on 'sale', but not really on 'sale'. They put an absurd amount as the 'regular' price, and then put the real price as the 'sale' price. Anyway, we knew this going in because we bought our living room & bedroom furniture from there about a year ago. So, when we got there, we get annoying saleslady from hell. She starts trying to schmooze us and we tell her what we want. She was so annoying. She told us the set we picked they just got in 'a few days ago'. Funny. The set we picked was there 3 weeks ago and they told us the same thing then. I guess 'a few days ago' means different things to different people. Anyway, we finally got to the point where we pay, but not before she made some comment about how we were so lucky because we picked different chairs and we got a 'better deal'. Don't tell me about a 'better deal.' Actually, on the way into the store, I asked Chris if we should try to negotiate with them on the price. When we got in the store, we heard our saleslady talking to this other couple about how she couldn't give them ANY deals and just because you're spending thousands of dollars doesn't entitle you to a discount, because TR Hughes buys millions of dollars in furniture from there and doesn't get a discount. Now. I'm going to call bullshit on that. I highly doubt a company like TR Hughes would be buying 'millions' in furniture from Value City WITHOUT getting a discount. I just don't understand why furniture salespeople treat the consumer like they're stupid. Do people not do any sort of research on the purchase they are making? I mean, we do. Most of the people we know do, I just figured everyone else did too. Please don't treat me like I'm stupid. Thanks. I wish I could just walk up to the cashier and tell them, "This is what I want, and I don't need a salesmen." I wonder if the price would be cheaper since you wouldn't be paying someone's commission....

Regardless, we bought the table & 6 chairs and it won't be in until Oct. 4th. So much for instant gratification. I'm excited about the table though. It's huge. HUGE. It will seat about 12, with both leaves in the table. It's also from the same collection as our living room & bed room furniture. I'm really hoping we can match the dark wood color to new kitchen cabinets. It will look sweet when it's all done, with our stainless steel appliances.

We went to the baseball game today, but left early because it was freaking hot. There were lots of Cubbie fans there. That's about it. I'm going to take a nap.