Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:09 pm
At my home depot the people are more amazed that I know so much at the age of 13 about plumbing items, And I can tell them what im building, but they dont understand a word Im saying.
Coodude26 wrote:That sucks about ohio, but here in illinois not that many people even know what a sprinkler system is, apparantly
And often, that random person is my father - for some reason, people keep falsely assuming he's a shop worker, despite the fact that he's not wearing any sort of uniform or anything.Hotwired wrote:Still sounded exactly like a common scenario of asking a random person in a large store for an item.
I often encountered that same situation with my father when i was younger, usually in large department stores in the electronics section.Ragnarok wrote:And often, that random person is my father - for some reason, people keep falsely assuming he's a shop worker, despite the fact that he's not wearing any sort of uniform or anything.Hotwired wrote:Still sounded exactly like a common scenario of asking a random person in a large store for an item.
His greatest moment was when a woman asked him if he could open a cabinet for her to look at something, and his response was:
"Sure. Have you got a brick?"
They do that all the time to me. They're like "Are you sure you don't mean...THIS?" and hold up some random hand-turned valve. and in my mind I'm like "NO I DON'T F***ING MEAN THAT I SAID SOLENOID THATS NOT A SOLENOID IS IT YA ****" but I just say "thanks, but that's not it"pvcpsyco wrote:Coodude26 wrote:That sucks about ohio, but here in illinois not that many people even know what a sprinkler system is, apparantly
aha, I live in ilinois as well and one time I asked for a sprinkler valve at home depot and they took meh to the brass valves section and pointed at the garden hose spout. lol. I said "Thank you very much, and then I walked away"
That is so true, there's a bookstore near where I live with a starbucks inside it, you should see how many goofy people hang out in thereTHUNDERLORD wrote: It's funny because on my way there, is a starbucks with a lot of goofy types. Also there's a borders books for bookworm goofy types.
They'll always try to get you with that approach, same with me and PVC. I wanted to buy 10 feet and they suggested I buy it in 2' incrementspotatoflinger wrote:That is so true, there's a bookstore near where I live with a starbucks inside it, you should see how many goofy people hang out in thereTHUNDERLORD wrote: It's funny because on my way there, is a starbucks with a lot of goofy types. Also there's a borders books for bookworm goofy types.
I actually just had my first bad experience with Lowes today, and it wasn't even cannon construction related. I went there to buy trimmer line, and the employee there tried to tell me that it was cheaper to buy pre-cut lengths of line rather than buying one of those giant spools of line, when I actually saved $7 buying the giant spool.