Idiot at Ikea

[It's me]

Saw this one today...

I was at Ikea in the lighting section, with my 5-year old daughter.

There was a guy, maybe about 20 or so trying to remove the UV-filter glass from a halogen desklamp with his fingers... wasn't making much progress largely due do the screw-in clips he completely failed to see. (I have no idea why he thought it okay to disassemble the display model). So he turns to the 13 year-old girl in a brown hoodie who was looking at something on a shelf behind him and asks, "Hey, do you work here?" Of course that gets him nowhere... so he goes back to trying to disassemble the lamp, gets nowhere again and figures to try the next lamp over. Which was turned on... after getting a nice burn from the hot glass he gave up and wandered off elsewhere.

[Food Lady]

I think my brain just broke. My reaction was wha, huh, oh, ahunnnh, huh?

[protege]

I think my mind broke while reading that

At least the idiot didn't accidentally touch the halogen bulb... I've heard that the oils on your fingers can make them explode! Something about the oils screws up the way the heat transfers from the glass, IIRC.

[Mnemjian]

I hope that girl gave him a Teenage Look of Disgust (TM)