Miscellaneous: Today, my wife and I drove two hours from our rural town to buy...

By davy0540 - 30/11/2014 06:09 - United States

Today, my wife and I drove two hours from our rural town to buy a new sofa. When we got home, it took us an hour to figure out there was no way to fit it through our door. We made the two hour drive back to return it, only to find the store was closed. FML

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Monday 1 December 2014 0:04

A measuring tape would've gone a long way...

orbit 22

Monday 1 December 2014 1:29

Or you could measure your doorway before buying a piece of furniture.

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iunpossible 15

Monday 1 December 2014 6:57

You tried way too hard on that one #53

MrConcise 34

Monday 1 December 2014 6:59

@55 - Commenting the first thing I thought of when I saw "hindsight" is trying too hard? Dang, maybe people just have really simplistic thought processes.

Chris_D9 3

Monday 1 December 2014 9:42

YDI! I work in a furniture store and no we won't take your sofa back if it doesn't fit. (Provided we told you the size of the sofa) If you don't measure your doors then it's your fault.

ShadowPsychosis 4

Monday 1 December 2014 14:03

Sorry if this is a dumb idea, but did you try bringing it in through the back door instead? Have you also tried using the height of a doorway as well as the width, sometimes if you tip it upwards and diagonally it helps, it's the only way we got our sofa down a skinny hallway and through a door right next to the stairs.