Troubles of travel make furniture a better value
Jerry Epperson -- Furniture Today, July 20, 2008
How much furniture would you sell me for $9,000?
Nine large is my best estimate for taking my 4-year-old granddaughter to Disney World. Granted, the five of us had a great time, primarily watching her get her princess outfit at the Bippity Boppity Boutique, designed to draw huge money from doting grandparents.
One of the new words this year is the “staycation” — not going away to enjoy a vacation. The home furnishings industry must take advantage of these obscenely high gas and travel prices to show America what a great deal investing in your home really is. Spending money where you spend your time is a terrific idea.
Consider travel for a minute. What is the best you can expect? To get there and back on time — and when did that happen?
What else can happen? Expensive airport parking, if available; long check-in lines for boarding passes, security checks and searches; slow boarding; flight delays; thunderstorms; uncomfortable seats; talkative, odorous seatmates; shared armrests; air turbulence; airborne viruses; teeny airplane toilets; air sickness bags; no knee room; paying for airline food or no food at all; no seat assignment; center seats; dumb movies; too much carry-on luggage; overpriced, under-needed Skymall stuff; costly airline phones; rough landings; flight attendant's “bu-byes”; changed gates; missed flight connections; rude airport staff; ruder fellow travelers; canceled flights; overbooked flights; pilot strikes; sleeping on the airport floor; lost luggage; damaged luggage; things stolen from luggage; luggage sent to Pittsburgh by mistake; jet lag; no Internet service; line for rental car; overpriced insurance; lost rental car reservations; tiny rental cars; $8 a gallon rental car refills; lines for cabs; cab drivers who do not understand English, how to drive or where they are going; lost hotel reservations; overpriced bad hotel food; cramped hotel rooms; dirty bedding; no towels; no hot water; loud drunks in the hall; no wake-up call; room smells like Lysol (or worse); fire alarm at 2 a.m.; food with “local color”; pickpockets; road rage; breakfast buffets; bad coffee; chugging Pepto-Bismol; traffic delays; parking a mile from the front gate; $4 bottles of water; bad rides described as “thrilling”; “It's a Small World After All” over and over and over, again and again; your dear tired child; other people's screaming brats; where's my wallet?; the walk back to the rental car ... what color was it?
If these things are not familiar, you are not traveling enough.
And please remember that furniture folks can write-off a trip to Disney World if you spend time with Chip 'n Dale.
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