Our First Lowes - What A Difference Over Home Depot!!!

Now you tell me.

I thought she was a lezbo 'cause she ignored me when I hit on her.

sigh...

UA100

Dave:

Yahbut, you don't have to go quite as far to get the same(ish) service.

Good thing there's an Eliot's on your way home?

UA100, who was a wee bit put out at Nue's the last time because they didn't have a single 5/16" hex head cap screw/no really, it's true...

Well, let me give you directions. Head east on Capitol and make a left at Starbucks, in front of the new Pick 'N Save, the other side of the new WalMart.

Sound like it may have improved to you?

UA100, who finds Milwaukeeans funny when it comes to "colored folk"...

Yup. means that the place had *NOT* "gone to L" yet.

Funny thing this wreck of ours. I'm reading a post, as I read most of the regulars, then it occurs to me that I spend time on the wreck as I want to learn, and not waste my time on mindless soapies following the lives of virtual existences.

Then I recall the great house/shop fire, major tool purchases, on-line flame fests, the death of valued regulars, shop dogs, births and marriages and wonder "what *is* the difference"?

I suppose the fact that these 'virtual existences' are woven with our specific interests yet combined with knowledge, amusement, sometimes drama, and a modicum of interaction are the keys. But it is a powerful mix to keep people coming back year after year. Some of the grumpy old men have been trapped here for more than a decade.

So, what say you, what is the attraction for yourself?

Groggy

As the anniversary of the passing of Paully Radovanic is approaching I'd like to say he's still missed, and I hope his family are well. For the newbies, may I suggest you read some of Paul's posts in Google on finishing.

Groggy asks:

Well, my chin whiskers are caught in my keyboard, for a start. Part of the reason I'm grumpy. The rest of the reason is I'm old.

Charlie Self "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." George W. Bush, St. Charles, Missouri, November 2,

The times I've asked for help in Lowes, they've always been able to help me. That's never happendd to me in a HD, and usually takes 2 or 3, minimum; even then, they usually didn't stock what I needed. Which is only "one" of the reasons I don't shop at HD.

As far as I am concerned they are all the same! I don't got to HD or Lowes and expect knowledgeable clerks to surround me. I go to buy a tubafour. If I need help, I go else where!

I while back I needed a piece of "B" vent for a furnace I was helping my neighbor install. Now normally I would go to the local wholesale house, but I was a piece short and we wanted to get-r-done. We went to HD, but they had a different brand, ("B" vent varies by brand, you can not mix and match brands), so we went to Lowes. In Lowes heating department I found one piece of "B" vent, right brand, Lowes sticker on it, so I know they stocked it! But no more, no selection of various lengths, no fittings, just this one lost and lonely piece. I asked the confused clerk where in the store did they have this venting, of course I just got some mumbling and shuffling of his feet. Next I asked where they had water heaters in the store, more mumbling, shuffling. I walked off and eventually found the water heaters and a good selection of the venting I was looking for. Seems they stock it with the gas fired water heaters. Greg

How can you tell the difference? Most of the clerks act and look like a cardboard cutout, 'cept some of them move a bit faster! Greg

If you have no life, no hobbies, it will do. Greg

'Cause this is the cutout that looks like Norm.............

This just in. St. Soozan informs me that the rumor is the next Lowes is going in at a 124th. and Burleigh, where the Briggs & Stratton plant *used* to be which puts them nearly in Home Depot's front parking lot.

UA100, who hasn't been by to see the carnage at B&S yet...

This is pretty common in lots of different stores. I used to work at a "left handed" Wal-Mart. Since it was the only Wal-Mart around, I had no idea it was backwards until I started driving a truck.

As far as the Lowes' vs. HD experience, when HD finally came to town, I looked around a few times, and pronounced it "just like Lowe's, only orange." I wonder if Keith feels the same about Lowe's, having grown up in HD. The two stores are about 90% identical merchandise/price wise. The layouts are different, and that's annoying. I'd rather shop at the one where I know how to find stuff, and for me, that's Lowe's. I almost never bother to drive a bit further up the street to HD. It's not that I hate HD, but I do feel like their store is pretty much superfluous. Lowe's is closer, familiar, and 90% identical. Oh, and it's blue, not orange. I hate orange.

On that note, anyone have a link to the Paully Rad masterpiece Bonefish?

UA100

HD on Port road off Capitol. Look for Carla in Paints. I was looking at weatherseal, she asked if I was finding everything, I quipped offhand that the stuff I was looking at required 40 degrees and it was a 30 degree day. She said I needed Seal&Peel, walked down the aisle, and brought a tube to me. OK, I wasn't actually intending to buy any at all, but I left with two tubes. When I got home, I called up HD and asked for her manager to be sure he heard my "AttaGirl" loud and clear.

Menard's OTH (on 76th) has actively hostile twerps roaming the aisles.

I've just given up on asking. If I can't find what I want, I assume that either a) they don't have it, or 2) they don't care if they sell it to me. Either way I leave and go to the next one (and the next and... until I put the project on-hold and get what I need on-line).

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Sompin' on yer mind there Uni a'hunnert?

They moved all of the stuff to Mexico. Remember what Ross Perot said in the debates about "hearing a giant sucking sound"?

They don't have salesmen at the Borg, they have clerks.

Thanks Weeg.

UA100