Good and bent

So the Rooms to Go delivery truck showed up nice and early yesterday.  I knew about it almost the same time as Cindy did thanks to my notification from the Ring doorbell.  I watched the two delivery guys wheel both pieces up to the door.  The top half of each seat gets put together once the furniture is inside the house.  As the guys were doing that the driver noticed this gap between two of the seats.

He flipped the couch forward and immediately found the cause of the gap, the frame in that area was bent.  Apparently at some point the sofa was subjected to an impact.  The delivery guys said it was no problem, they would leave the sofa for now and deliver a new, straight one tomorrow.

I wish I could say I was surprised.   My bedroom furniture was bought from Rooms to Go some 14-15 years ago.  I had multiple pieces damaged upon delivery back then.  I also have heard similar stories from friends that bought from RTG.  For some reason they have a hard time getting stuff in the door that is not damaged.

So anyway a supervisor was supposed to call back Cindy to confirm the delivery of the replacement sofa.  That call turned into a bit of a circus as Cindy had to deal with multiple people, one of which almost pointed the finger of blame at Cindy, asking her why they left the damaged piece.  Eventually Cindy got a confirmation that a new sofa is supposed to arrive today.  She is hoping to score a delivery credit from RTG for the inconvenience of having to rope off two days to allow for delivery a second time.

Despite the damage, the new sofa and love seat look very nice in the great room, a much better compliment to the upgraded flooring we installed last year.  The dark brown contrasts nicely with light color on the walls.  Last night we did further testing how the sofa worked for our typical dinner/dvr activities.  It was comfortable and much more supportive than the well worn set it was replacing.

This weekend I get to enjoy three days off work.  I took a vacation day, something I have found is worthwhile after hosting a Super Bowl party.  Of course I plan to put the extra time to good use.  I have a list of winter projects that have not been getting crossed off as quickly as I would like due to the f’d up weather and other circumstances.  What is even cooler is I have ANOTHER three day weekend next week thanks to President’s Day, awesome.