Major, major, major Lee Valley gloat.

Where are you?

We're planning to move to Coos County, NH (the Berlin area). I think that would be a perfect place for an LV store. :-)

Kevin

Hi -

It's not as much the theiving, as the risk of injury. We have a lot of kids let loose in the store - and not all parents are vigilant.We'd rather lose a sale than have a hurt child...or a hurt big kid - and a lawsuit...

Not mention how many people test edge tools on other tools, or displays.

It's a regrettable necessity......

Cheers -

Rob

mac davis wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

There goes the neighborhood!

Patriarch

Have you got your Authentic Indian Name yet?

I figure the scenario goes like this:

Johnny: "Daddy, I really want that new action toy". Dad: "No Johnny, not right now". Johnny: "But Daddy, I've been a really good boy and all my friends have one".

Dad stops to think for a minute and then goes to Mom.

Dad: "Hi Dear, Johnny has been really good lately just like he promised, so I thought I'd go buy him that new action toy. While I was at it, I thought I'd stop at Lee Valley Tools and get that Leigh dovetail jig they have. I could use it to build you a really great bathroom vanity, you know you always wanted one. Mom: "Forget it Frank. It costs too much." Dad: "But Honey, none of the other dads on the street have one that I can borrow and if I get one, we'd even save money over paying some contractor to build a vanity for us as well and I could build you other stuff too." Mom thinks for a minute, realizes that Frank will be obligated to her big time if she says ok and also realizes that she could go along and buy herself some gardening equipment at the same time.

So, off the family goes to Lee Valley Tools. Johnny owes mom because she was the one that said yes. Dad owes mom because she was the one that said yes. Mom gets some new garden tools.

Does anybody wonder how it came to be that women really control the world?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:56:52 -0600, the inscrutable Dave Balderstone spake:

Hey, no longer will I be known as "C-less"!

Youse guys may now call me by my Authentic Indian Name: Franklin Lovely Brains.

Whoda thunk it?

---------------------------------------------- Never attempt to traverse a chasm in two leaps

I don't see a "C" in there, C-less...

yrs,

Johnson Stately Beak

"Upscale" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@rogers.com:

Well, that's one way it happens...

They also frequently outlive us, outsmart us, and mess with our minds. And we frequently say how happy we are with the situation.

Mine is much better with the checkbook than I am.

Patriarch

While the Northeast might not be a bad idea, there is no doubt that Souther California would be a far better location for a LV store. I was speaking to the order-taking lady last winter and while she was filling my order we chatted about the weather. Canada - cold, wet snowy. SoCal

- (that day at least) mid-eighties, slight breeze. Even the LV employee stated a preference for SoCal. Give your poor, hard-working employees a break, Robin. This IS the place for a new location!!!!

Glen

Hi Glen -

Would that part of California be on the right side, or the left side of the fault line??? :)

Important to know, for long term planning......

Cheers -

Rob

Understand Robin, when the big quake happens, everything east of the San Andreas fault will fall into the Atlantic. jolt, jo4hn (on the left side and way above)

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:18:08 -0400, the opaque "Robin Lee" spake:

According to Murphy's Law, when the Big One hits LoCal, everything east of the San Andreas Fault will fall into the Atlantic.

Choose your location wisely, Rob.

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The only problem with putting a store in SO. Cal is who could afford to live there? I wouldn't live in a home that costs 200K there. Any thing worth living in there would costs at least 800K or more. Any thing less than that would not buy a home big enough for a wood shop. I think Lee Valley would be better off locating in Central Illinois where one could buy a new home with a 3 car garage for 250K on a decent size lot too.

SOMEBODY lives there! Ever noticed the clogged freeways??

Dave

Dave wrote:

_which_ fault line?

scott

That's how they avoid having to buy a house.

Mike

jo4hn wrote in news:bBCre.4025$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:

Cool - I can hit about 8,000 feet in 30 minutes - so I'll finally get that Island Retreat I always wanted...

Robin, that would be on the left side of the Nannygoat Hill fault line (that's the one that causes that steep hill up Booth Street here in Ottawa :-)

Hope this helps,

Dave O'H oheareATmagmaDOTca

In the Ottawa store, all you have to do is ask. Sometimes I have a list, sometimes I don't. I've even said "I'm not going to buy this now, but can I have a look at it anyway" and the answer has always been "Sure, no problem."

Dave O'H oheareATmagmaDOTca