Friday, August 6, 2010

IKEA Commercial

So my mother is always telling me how my room is so messy and I need to clean it up because it embarrasses her... I say yes mom, I toss the sheets back on my bed and go back to doing whatever it was that I was doing (this last month or so I've been working on a 2,500 piece puzzle I got from GoodWill, my favorite store ever... well second favorite store, and I'm fairly certain that it's missing pieces... or I'm stupid... or my brother/mother forced parts and bits of the border together... or a combination of the three).  Anyways as I was cleaning my room I remembered this old ad...



Sorry ducky if you ever come visit me in college... yeah check for forks! Anyways, so I'm going to college and getting furniture/random stuff and generally chilling at IKEA and I start thinking about an old board game I used to love as a child...
That's right Chutes and Ladders, I don't know if you've ever had the chance to play this quality game you know how lame it should be.  I won't lie I've sat down more than once and tried playing through myself and I didn't hit a single chute (that's a slide for those of you that don't know...) nor a single ladder... Yet every time I played as a child or as an... "late teens" version of the game everyone always got completely shafted by those slides... I'm fairly certain that I have more fingers than memories of times where I've landed on a ladder.  

Anyways... back to IKEA so I was walking through and getting lost I realized that IKEA is just like chutes and ladders.  You go through a large warehouse first trying to locate the one item you want to buy and then once you've found it you're so far in the labyrinth that you can't get out.  It always seems like such a good idea to go in, they have free childcare and relatively cheap food and sounds like you could have a good time.  But then your realize that right as you begin nearing the end... you take a wrong turn and end up back near the beginning... I may market that some day soon so look out for it coming to retailers near you...

You can't see it from this angle but the rule clearly state that if you don't roll a 0 when you get to the exit you must return to the play room...