I bought a table

So we got the keys of the house yesterday and are planning to move in today, because the studio gets a little smaller each day, and we are tired beating up the kids. Sean says it doesn't hurt any more.
One of the prerequisites to moving in was to buy a kitchen table and four chairs, so we would have at least one table and chairs moving in.
I bought a nice table and 4 chairs in the local mall for $250, which came in a large cardboard box full of pieces, rather like one of Sean's lego sets.
When the guy arrived with the cardboard box, the furniture manager arrived and they proceeded to open the box and check the contents. This proved to be a good idea because there was one chair leg missing. The guy disappeared and came back with a chair leg, cannibalised presumably from another cardboard box.
In the middle of this my cellphone rang and it was Joan in the Ottawa office; a user in Toronto was having problems with a Groupwise Remote installation, looks like the NTLDR in Windows XP got corrupted and the PC won't start.
Eventually the table and chairs were transported out to the carpark by a different guy with a trolley. The cardboard box would not fit in the back of the car. No way it was going to go in, so we opened the cardboard box and put all the pieces separately in the boot. Thankfully not too many people witnessed this pantomime.
I am back in my office this Friday afternoon and my car sits outside with the kitchen table and four chairs in the boot, awaiting construction later today.