I didn't get a chance to blog yesterday.. mostly because I forgot. We got busy! and that felt good! The folks needed to run some errands, so in the morning, off we went to Orchard Supply Hardware. This has always been a good shopping experience, with friendly, helpful staff. But there was a different atmosphere this time. They have been rearranging - which is never easy for the older folks because things were always in the same place! Ah well, we conquered that and found everything on our list. We went to the checkout line, and oh boy....
She started ringing up our purchases and bam, hit total and hadn't rang in all our items! Ooops, so sorry folks, and she added in out tomato plants. then BAM! hit total again, even though we wanted one more item. When we told her about the mulch we wanted, and that there weren't any pull tags on the floor to bring her, she got on the radio ...... Finally, she got number, punched it in then, BAM, we got a total. Whew, we were finally done.
Slide the card, enter the numbers, punch Cash Back. Our cashier hit the keyboard to finish out the sale, grabbed the receipt and slammed the cash drawer shut. She stapled the pickup slip to the receipt, only the stapler jammed. She had to leave the register to find a stapler, and came back and she couldn't finish the transaction because the computer froze and we still needed our cash back. She called for help.
Help came, and said the computer froze, and pushed restart.
Still froze.
Push restart.
Still froze.
Call for help.
Manager arrives, doesn't look overly thrilled, doesn't say anything to us as customers, bangs on the cash drawer a few times, it doesn't pop out. Pulls the entire unit out, found a loose plug, plugs it back in and the drawer finally releases. I think it took us 20 minutes to get the $20!!!
When we got home, we fixed up some quesadillas for lunch, then rested up -- there's another errand to run in the afternoon :)
Later in the day, we zipped over to Home Depot. Dad wanted some boards to do some fence repairs I had no idea he wanted 16 foot long 2x4s! We found the spot and started rummaging through the boards, making sure they're straight. We're about halfway into finding what we want and some Asshole comes over, says he only needs one board, and jumps into the midst of our digging for boards and grabs one for himself. He can obviously see that two women and an older guy using a walker need help. Does he offer? no. Does he wait his turn? no. As he zips out again he tosses over his shoulder, "You really should ask for help, there are workers all over doing nothing but standing around." I almost asked him WTF is his problem? But I held my tongue. So many Californians are rude like that. Sheesh.
So. We're loaded with boards, and the other things we need, and lucky for us, the cashier brought her little zip gun right over, scanned everything, and while Dad paid, we zipped out the door and waited for my nephew, Anthony, to come over in his truck. He had no idea Dad wanted such long boards either!!!! We got them in, and tied them down, but gee, they stuck up over the tailgate by a good five feet! I told him to drive slow, we'd be right behind him. lol.
We got all our things home with no mishaps, so that was good :)
Spaghetti for dinner, then watched the Sharks game -- Good win, Sharks!
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