Let's just start this by saying.. the hiring qualifications at our newest Lowes in the area... are LITTLE TO NONE! I mean, I guess if you speak english & can walk around looking busy, then maybe you're good. :-/
We started as usual going to get the last of the tools we needed and the day's load of wood. We're buying by the day so it doesn't get left out in the rain, make a huge mess, get in the way, etc.... So.. Do you know what a chalkline is? It's a pc of rope/string in a contraption like a tape measure..used to mark a straight line when pulled from one end to the other, then lifting the string and letting it go so as to make it snap onto your surface (like plywood) and it leaves a long straight chalkline for cutting etc. I looked in the obvious places, measuring tape, all of hardware, even in sheetrock & plywood to no avail. Not even a tag with an empty slot. So I asked the hardware associate.. She gave me the blankest stare I think I've ever seen.. I mean she'd give zombies a run for their money! I had to repeat myself cause..just incase ya know. I just said nevermind and walked away. I decided to find someone in wood/sheetrock.. they'd know since they have to cut for customers all day.. He says it should be in hardware and we go back there... and didn't find it. I said forget it, i'll get it later elsewhere. Go to the cashier, she forgets to give us the military discount so we had to go to customer service.. where she screws it ALLLLL up! She refunds our purchase to a gift card...re-rings it and puts in cash as payment.. now clearly her drawer is short. Has to rering a refund in cash to straighten that out. Then re-rings it again and to our favor forgot 1 item.. haha IDIOT! After realizing how incapable she was, i decided for shits&giggles to ask her about the chalkline. At this point how bad could it get, i just wanted to see!
Me: Do you by chance know what a chalkline is?
Her: You mean like for drawing around a dead body?"
Me: BLANK STARE (zombies, we're comin for you!)
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse... she did it! I thought Curtis was going to blow a gasket! He was overflowing with disgust! It was rather hilarious to me.. Glad I was in a good mood!
--Wish I'd been quicker on my feet.. I'd have responded with "yeah, that's it.. I have a body in my backyard i'd like to mark before burying it" "HERE'S YOUR SIGN"
So shopping trips aside (bought a ladder off craigslist too lol) we laid out the wood and started marking away..The first tree support brace was a lot of trial and error... Luckily most everything was salvaged to actually fix it! ahaha. and we'll definitely be testing this thing out before and children get in it! I'm pretty confident it'll be fine, it's a matter of deciphering these directions when they like to put steps kinda out of order and say later in the writings.. "make sure you did this", when it was never in the instructions! Gotta love it! The little drawings aren't exactly idiot proof either! lol We definitely make no accusations of knowing what we're doing in the least, but with my brains (and they're pretty great) and his braun (which is pretty good too) I think we got this under wraps!
At the end of the night, we hadn't completed a whole hell of a lot, but daylight wasn't our friend by the time we really got in the groove!
Until the morning....(early before it gets too hot cause we were out in the 104 heat all day and drunk about 2 gallons of Crystal Light!)
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