Light the Lamps

I bought Becky some lamps for her birthday. She found a set at Wal-Mart that she really liked. It had 2 table lamps in the set and a tall floor lamp. We took it home in a medium sized box , wondering how many parts were in there waiting for us to put together. Also, we were kind of stumped as to how the lamp shades were crammed in there. It was the day after we moved her in and so we went lickety split back to her house to put them together to see how they would look in her living room. Adam and I started putting the pieces together while Becky was trying to unhook the lamp off a little table lamp that she had. It was one of those that had the lamp built in the table and it was about to fall apart, so when she got the lamp un hooked from the table,we sat one of the table lamps on it. It looked really great!... We discovered that the lamp shades were folded flat and the hasp and other wire frame were in the box. With some difficulty we got them put together, and the color really complimented the room. Adam was down to the tall floor lamp, when tragedy struck.The floor lamp was in three pieces with the wires strung thru the pipe like parts. One of them had the screw section in crooked and no matter how hard we tried, we could not get that thing together. We finally gave up and decided to take it back to Wal-Mart.
We didn't attempt to try and take the lamps apart and put them back in the box, so there went Becky and myself , carrying 2 table lamps and a box with a floor lamp sticking out all over, into Wal-Mart. They only had one more of those sets left, so we grabbed it before anyone else could and exchanged it and headed back to Beck's house. She really liked those lamps and was excited we got another set. We learned our lesson from the last time, so we started with the floor lamp. Wouldn't you know this floor lamp did the very same thing. We tried so hard to get it to go together that we got it stuck and couldn't get it apart, so there we are going back to Wal-Mart with a box with the table lamps still in their original wrappings and that stupid floor lamp half put together.
There were 4 people ahead of us, so we had to wait in line. The wait wasn't too long and when we were the next people to get waited on, another woman came and got in line behind us. She had a baby doll that was turning its head and babbling in baby talk and then it would laugh a baby laugh( which I thought was real cute) but the woman said it had been doing that ever since she took it off the shelf in the store. By the time we got to the desk to be waited on, I could see why she was bringing that thing back. We were glad to walk away from her and that doll.
Now Becky has to hunt for lamps again. She had to go thru the trouble of putting that old lamp back on the table so she will have some light in her living room, until she can find some more lamps. I just might let her go out on her own for this adventure. Good Luck Beck. Love mom.