We drive by the Coquitlam IKEA every time that we do weekly grocery shopping. It had been quite a while since we walked inside the massive building. In fact, I'm guessing that we may have been masked and used hand sanitizer when going inside it the last time.
This morning we had some very heavy rain. Although Jay generally laughs at crowds who gather at, what he calls, the IKEA worshipping center, he reluctantly agreed to go walk through the megastore's maze. I think it was a two kilometer hike! We found it a rather interesting way to spend an hour and a quarter on a morning too wet to do anything outside. There were so many families as well as so many opportunities to eat inside! Oh, and there were millions of ideas for home improvements.
We ended up spending a bit of time in one particular section of the IKEA. The current sofa in our apartment would now be old enough to vote in most places. We got the old, green loveseat from a Sears Canada back where there was a Sears Canada. They went through bankruptcy and liquidation in 2018 here.
Back in 2006, it seemed important to have its 'hide-a-bed' feature for guests. Although my sister used it for that purpose just last month, I can count on one hand the number of others who've slept on it. It is an old-school, fold-up mattress on springs. So, I think we can safely forego trying to replace it with another with that feature.
The only thing we left with, this morning, was two packages of paper napkins that Jay grabbed as we walked near the check out.