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Home Depot: The Saga Continues [message #55893]

Mon, 04 October 2004 07:34

Manualblock
Messages: 4973
Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (13th Degree)

Sunday and my usual hardware guys is closed. The wife needs topsoil and Franks has gone out of business; so Home Depot. I send her over to the garden dept. and I head over to plumbing supplies. I turn into one of the aisles and there are three female employees, two on the ground and one on a ladder putting up copper pipe. I say to the two on the ground,
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I can find 3/8" escutcheons". (I am plumbing out a pedastal sink.),
"The whaaat??", she responds.
"Escutcheons, you know for sinks."
"OOh, Sinks are over there", she says pointing.

" I don't want a sink," I say.
Blank Stare.
"Escutcheons, you know for the supply lines." I try again helpfully.

Blank Stare.

Just then a guy comes by pushing a dolly full of interior doors.
" Come with me", he says, "I think they are over here".

As we turn the corner into the aisle I hear:
" What did he want?" from the ladder.

"I have no Ideea".

When will I learn.

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Re: Home Depot: The Saga Continues [message #55894 is a reply to message #55893]

Mon, 04 October 2004 08:11

Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

Oh, yeah - "Escutcheon" - Better show them a picture. I have the same problem when discussing escutcheons for old tube radios. Better to just call them decorative frames around radio dials, oterwise most people don't know what I'm talking about.

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Re: Home Depot: The Saga Continues [message #55895 is a reply to message #55894]

Mon, 04 October 2004 09:38

Manualblock
Messages: 4973
Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (13th Degree)

Thinking about it I guess that would be a generic term for any pipe cover. I don't mean to seem uncharitable in these stories but you have to admitt you can't pay people nothing and get quality help; it's not even their fault, why should they know what it is, they don't get paid to be knowledgable. Even though that is a pretty common thing in home construction.
OrCad looks good, I would like to become fluent in one of these programs to help learn circuits from the iside out. Just want to comment as long as I got you here how nicely the foruum is progressing. Getting really knowledgable posts that stay on topic is quite an accomplishment. Thanks for all your hard work. my goal is to learn enough to make competant posts myself for others to use. Thats why I bring up some of these oddball subjects. Compared to all you guys it is daunting to say the least. J.R.

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Since we're in the dungeon [message #55896 is a reply to message #55895]

Mon, 04 October 2004 17:45

wunhuanglo
Messages: 912
Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

I guess I can tell this story.

My "baby" brother is in residential construction. He trades with the plumbing supply house, the lumber yard, the millwork supply, the electrical supply, etc... He doesn't go into Home Depot, naturally.

When I complain to him about some misadventure or other in Home Depot he always says the same thing: "Home Depot is for assholes. If you go in there, you're another asshole and you should expect to be treated like an asshole. When are you going to learn?"

I know he's right, but it's so convenient...(said with a whine).

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