Buying blinds part two

Simple? part 2

After a failed attempt at buying blinds a few years back a new wave of future faking landed us in a store choosing curtains ( #future-faking ) . We bickered, we disagreed but we got there in the end ( #argumentative ) . Curtains chosen. Curtains bought.

On to stage two.

The people from the blinds store had quoted us for 1) the installation of a bunch of curtain rails and 2) the fitting of roller-blinds behind the curtains. The fitter just needed the curtains in advance so he could fit the rails at the right height.

Perfect, we’re on track but there’s still a conversation ongoing regarding some final details. Nope, scrap that. Susan has arrived in the store, paid a deposit and ended the conversation by making the choices ( #control ) . That scored moderately on the annoying scale. I’m not fussed, just a little annoyed that the process had been hijacked but slightly more annoyed that it stank of the last time we tried to buy blinds. Susan had walked almost a mile to get to the store, just for fun. It’s not that I mind this, it’s a healthy thing for a healthy person to do. It’s just that in Susan’s case it stank of discontent and general daftness.

Anyway, all good, we got the curtain rails fitted, curtains hung and the blinds fitted and despite the two of us, they actually looked great. Oh wait, no, they didn’t. They were so terrible that is was necessary to try to unscrew the curtain rails from the wall. Just home from work, standing on a chair, screwdriver in hand, Susan was unsuccessfully trying to unscrew the rails. Failing at that attempt, she tried to lever them off the wall by ramming the screwdriver in behind the fitting.

I’ll never know why. I just walked away. When I returned a few hours later the rails were still on the walls. I really didn’t care if they would be or not.

It would only take about a week until my arrival outside the house in my car (the same as any other day, yet more exciting today for some reason) caused the closed blind to be pulled aside to wave out at me. The resultant crease marks on the blind never abated, it just gets worse each time she does this. You see, the problem with having blinds is that they block both ways, one can no longer nosey out the window as easily as one used to.