Perambulator vs Koenigsegg

When waiting to become a parent there is a lot of stuff you have to do. The main part that I did was to block out the fact that I was becoming a parent. This I successfully did most part of most days. But sooner or later you have to start getting prepared. One big part for us, in fact the most expensive part at least so far, was to get a pram (or a perambulator that I just learned that 'barnvagn' is called if you live in Britain).

My thoughts on this was that, 'well, you go to a store, pick the one you want, pay what ever is on the price tag, and then take it home with you'. But no. It turns out that the brand that we wanted (emmaljunga) only build their stuff on order. So I changed what I thought to, 'we pick the one we want, pay what ever is on the price tag, and then wait a couple of weeks before we get it, no problemo'. But no. It turns out that it takes no less than thirteen weeks to get it. Thirteen weeks. That is a third of the length of the entire pregnancy. That is the fucking time it takes for the team of builders to build a fucking Koenigsegg. We went out of the shop in a haze. We had heard rumours of this but we hadn't believed them. We had about ten weeks to the expected due date so this was obviously not an option.

On our way home we changed what we thought to 'lets see what we can find on blocket'. That was a good thought. The very same day I strolled home with a new looking (although one year old) pram of the model we had chosen in the store. I stuffed it as far into the storage room I could and then I worked hard to get my mind back into the nice state of ignorance. (Which worked fine until some later when we took a trip to IKEA to buy a baby cot...)