Please cheer me up by telling me your 'adulting fails', we could do with a giggle at Widdlin'Towers here, where it's all gone distinctly tits up on the sofa front.
If you're sitting comfortable (hopefully, because I certainly am not!) I'll begin!
Comfy places to sit are really important for me as I use a wheelchair with specialist seating, and the sofa is the only other place I can sit in the day. The bed is comfy, but its upstairs which is a hassle and I can only lie in it, not sit. I can only lie for about 6 hours, max. So having somewhere downstairs other than my own wheelchair to sit is really really important or I start to get pressure sores, trapped nerves, all sorts of woes and grief.
We had a second hand sofa, big hefty leather bastard bought for about £30 around 10 years ago.
DP had broken his side (webbing gone) with his backside and his insistance on flinging himself into it, and then sitting sprawled out shoving the leather (fixed) around - but he insisted it was still comfy, leave it be.
My side was fine, I sit with my legs out straight in front of me on a footstool, with an inflatable ROHO cushion under me due to card carrying wobbly cripple status, so despite being baby elephant level overweight, it was fine...
Until last Monday when, as I scooched forward to get off it, I heard a crack.
I dispatched DP to the second hand furniture shops forthwith, for an interim sofa, and set about looking for a Proper, Expensive, New... fantasy sofa of my dreams. I have saved for this moment... I knew exactly what I really wanted... but.. could I really... dare I?
I did dare. The company were happy to reinforce it for my extra-hefty derriere and DP's sofa wrecking bum of doom, so I ordered it, and DP found what he PROMISED was a comfy 'interim sofa' for the 4 to 6 week wait.
This arrived on the Wednesday and beloved knackered, comfy but threatening to die sofa was ejected from the house (in pieces, an angle grinder was used, RIP Sofa). Enter temporary sofa.
Guess what?
It isn't comfy. In fact it is made for midgets with arses of steel, it's one of the modern style chesterfield, exposed wood frame at the front, one piece leather pad with the seats defined by rods and foam... It is like sitting on a lump of concrete that shoves you (well, me, and himself anyway) into entirely the wrong position if you do not fit into the individual seat divisions accurately.
It is fucking agony.
So theres £100 down the pan and I sent him off on Saturday to find a better one, one he tested thoroughly with his backside (I can't go, none of these second hand shops are bloody well wheelchair accessible!)...
He found one, its vile, its brown, its fabric, but apparently it is comfy so I turn a blind eye to the fact this threadbare monstrosity is £125... and agree. Oh... but the shop can't even start sorting delivery on a Saturday, we have to call on Monday for that...
Monday morning, he finally gets through to the warehouse/delivery department.
For 18 stores through the local area, this charity shop have ONE VAN. ONE. JUST ONE FUCKING VAN.
It will be THURSDAY before we get the second temporary sofa. I may actually die. There is no possibility I am being even a tiny bit over dramatic here... none.
If I could hibernate til Thursday in my bed, I would... I can't believe that I have spent money on THREE sofas in a week and so far still have nothing comfortable to sit on!! I should have continued with the old comfy knackered bugger, carefully, until we found a suitable temporary one, I should have ordered a new one long before the old one broke... I am an absolute fucking idiot! (Mind you, so is he as he swore blind the first temp sofa was fine and didn't confess he hadn't actually sat in it until it arrived here!!)...
So please please tell me I am not the only person to have ballsed up the orchestration of household purchases like sofas, or other 'in theory' simple tasks?!
(NEW new sofa of wonder is an S W James Dudley, which I have sat on at a clients house and was wonderful... so fingers x they suddenly have a slack week and make it faster than the predicted time frame, which is already more than reasonable!).