IKEA Test

I used to go to Bible college in Three Hills, as most off all y'all know. Well the girls there were very... Domestic to say the least. To impress a Prairie (Prairie Bible College) boy a girl would bake him cookies or offer to hem his trousers, anything to show off her domestic or motherly skills. The Prairie boys likewise tried to show how handy and masculine they were by playing sports and ripping clothes, getting cuts and the like.
More times than I can count I overheard conversations in the dining hall between two people obviously interested in one another where the boy was bragging about some accident or injury he had undergone and the girl telling of how she would have bandaged and cared for him had she been there. LOL It was really quite surreal for a 90's girl like me. :P

That being said I would like to tell you about "The IKEA Test". This was honestly a test a Prairie girl would put a potential husband through before she would even consider marrying him. In many cases before she would even consider going steady with him.

So a Prairie girl would invite a boy to go to IKEA with her on a Saturday afternoon. They would go to Calgary, usually as a group with friends, but once at IKEA the group would split leaving the girl and guy alone in the store. The test would then begin. The test was a cross between testing endurance and domestic skill. The girl would start up a conversation about some random piece of furniture questioning the boy on style, colour, placement, etc. If he went along with this she would then begin to "daydream" about what she would like in "her" house someday and what he thought of all her plans. If he went along with this she would begin to question him about what he would have in "his" house someday.

The boy, to pass the test, would have to endure this for upwards of three hours, in all departments of the store. He would have to have similar tastes to the girl and show active participation in her game and not just "put up" with her throughout the store.

Quite a fun test though. You'd be amazed how many futures of relationships were decided based on IKEA. :P LOL