I gotta ask, do they have a mandatory IQ test to get a job at Lowes or Home Depot?? I]m guessing they do, and if you do not come in , in the bottom 10% no job for you. ( Apologies to DIY store folks reading who actually know what they are doing)
During a big remodel project, I send the wife to Lowes to get either a reducing T (3/4-3/4 to 1/2" CPVC) or a reducing bushing, or a reducing coupling. I need probably 20 of these. Well, the wife who is pretty astute with most aspects of DIY stuff except plumbing............comes back with a bag full of stuff NOT my 1st choice of the reducing T's but stuff that will get me from 3/4 to 1/2".
Being in the middle of anther aspect of the remodel I shelved the bag to use later. Well, last nite is "later" I got the bag out, opened it up.............much to my surprise/dismay.........the bag is full of
1"-3/4 " reducing stuff.Now, I distinctly remember the wife calling to ask specific sizes when the Lowes idjit was trying to put the needed plumbing bits together, she had specifically asked for 3/4" to 1/2" reducing stuff, had showed the idjit the sizes , and even the drawing in her notebook........and he kept assuring her that what he put together was what she needed.
I just have to wonder........"WHY" ? Why would the idjit do that, unless he was simply.............an Idjit? This wasn't a kid either, it was an adult middle aged man. Of course, I guess I just answered my own question right?? If he is working at Lowes at 45-50 years old............
Ok, sorry to blow off, but this is not the 1st time this has happened at the big 2 DIY stores ( both of which are a 35 mile round trip from me).
I guess my own intelligence should be questioned too, as far as why I keep going there.
Oh well Take care ya'll Steve