loosecannons's Blog

Yeah, that's the way it goes. I wonder if em ole boys in the corp offices are like some of em on the floor out there. I have shopped both lowe's and home depot the last few years. i have the two of them right up there by me. i go to one and i go to the other. i cant tell any difference on service. i have walked around and around and around both of them before....looking...looking....looking lost....and finally i break down....and i try to find somebody who will actually stop...you know stop their stocking...stop their runnning to and fro ...real hurriedly, sometimes....like on a mission from the boss....and some of em ...just gabbing with each other...you know the two guys back there selling washers and dryers....talking to each other....i idle up close to them...hell..it aint even business ...its the ball game...or the girl friend...or something like that....they be talking about.....

...i finally break down and ...i hate to do this....i go up to the washer/dryer man and ask him where might i find a filter for my home air filtering machine...and he...like a whip...points over yonder to that isle number 7.....and i thank him profusely...telling him i be walking around a long time trying to find the filters....and he just smiles...and i go over to isle 7...and i cannot find the filter i need....so i go back out there in the isle....nope...dont see nobody here nor there....then, i go back out hunting again....and am embarrassed to go back to the washer and dryer man....so i ...oh, there comes somebody walking real fast up this isle...i hail him down...and tell him my needs and then...he says.....i'll get you somebody from 'plumbing'....they can help you...hmmmm....i seys to myself....'plumbing huh'....? ...that be the man who is going to be the expert on my air cleaner....but i guess they can be experts on both of them...and then this guy shows up....looks at my book on my air cleaner i have brought with me...for i have learned youd damnn well better bring it...and he muddles over the stock and...he shows me this filter that is $45....but i tell him i want a 'throw away' the ...filter that filters the real filter...one which should cost a few bucks...it appears this store does not have the throw away filters...and he suggests i get this....big thing he is looking at ....and 'cut it in half....'...well, i don't let him get done with that one and tell him i will just keep looking at another store...or on-line....and he is smiling and is happy,...i think...i am leaving so easily.....hmmmm....wonderful....wonderful ...experience....time elapesed from in to out is about 40 minutes...on what should take 7 minutes...yeah...ill bet lowe's is taking a look at their overhead too....those mexican builders done shook loose and took off for canada.

oh, but one good thing i noticted when i be in lowe's the last time....every sign they got in theree is in english and spanish too....!!! they be gitting ready i guess for the building up-turn that gonna take us about 4 years to get started into....by that time another generation of our southern nafta buddies be coming across...

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