Sticking it to the man! AKA Home Depot

I have wanted to post this one for a while, but never have the time or do not remember to post it. I spend a good amount of time and money at Home Depot and what do I get in return…Nothing! I finally got a coupon in the mail for 10% off my next purchase with my Home Depot Consumer Credit Card. EC and I have wanted to buy a storage shed for the backyard, but needed to clear out some stumps, which has been done. So it was time to buy the shed because the coupon expired on June 30th.

While the FIL was here (6/22), we went to buy one because I thought I might need some help loading it if the pallet would not fit on my truck. We had been looking at this one shed for 6 months or so (since we bought the new house) and it had a sign over it (the entire 6 months) for $798. The shed is regularly $848. The HD on our side of town had one, but it was open and missing pieces. The guy at our HD said that the other HD across town had 6. So we went over there and started the process. Before buying it, I asked what the price was and they told me $848. I told them about the sign at the other store so they called and they too said it was $848. I said I can go over there right now and take a picture of the sign with the price $798. They gave me the run around and said that if I could get them to call back over I could get that price. So we go back to the other one.

We get back and they are not very cooperative. I explained all I need them to do is pick up the phone and say $798. I almost had a guy convinced to do, but the FIL who was getting heated chimed in and the guy went to talk to a manager. They did not want to make the call. Instead they told me that they were expecting on in on a truck the next night (6/23), so I could buy that one now and pick it up on Saturday (6/24). I told them if that was the only way to get that price then that is what I would do. I went to the front counter for the paperwork and then I slid my 10% off coupon to the lady who then called the manager. I think he was finished dealing with us and said just do whatever. So instead of paying $848, I paid $720. I say, “I stick it in you Mr. Man.”

Saturday (6/24) comes and I call and the lady at the desk says she has no record of it coming in, but she would check with the manager when he came in. Blah blah blah, we leave town for the day and the manager calls back saying that they have one, so come pick it up. We get home and I go to HD. The manager says we have one that is missing some pieces that I can have and I just have to call an 800 number and the pieces will come in 48hrs. Flashback…the guy a few days earlier had told me that HD had contacted the company a few times to get parts and it took sometimes more than 4 weeks. I told the guy that it was missing parts and that is why I did not buy that one 3 days earlier. I told him I would wait for the one to come in on order. He told me to call him on Tuesday (6/27) to see if it was in.

Tuesday (6/27) arrives and I call the manager. He dicks me around and says that he just got in and has not checked yet…he would call me back. OK asshole, I checked your schedule and you got in at 1pm, it is now 230pm. He calls back and says that they do not have one yet, BUT he is sending one of his workers to the other store to get 1 of their 6 and bring it to our store…because he does not want to keep me on hold any longer. I tell him THANK YOU and I will wait for him to call. He calls around dinnertime and I go to get it.

He is at the front counter when I get there and tells me thanks for my patience and blah blah blah you are getting a great price. I tell him that is why I have been patient because I am getting the GREAT price. It was his way of telling me that he did not have to give me that price. I wanted to tell him that if he had had his retarded employees take down a sign that was 6 months old, we never would have had this problem. Eat shit! “I stick it in you Mr. Man!” Finally, another employee loaded the pallet into my truck and told me that he had gone out in the rain to get this for me from the other store. I told him that I appreciated it, but like I told him a week earlier…I could have gone to the other store last week and got it. He informed me that they wanted the sale. Driving away I tell myself…well then shut your face because I gave you a chance. “I stick it in you! How do you like that Mr. Man? Can you feel that…HUH HUH HUH?”

Peace Monkeys!

GGGGOOOOAAAALLLL!!!!

That's right the World Cup is back on today, which means I have something to watch on TV. SO the agenda for today is as follows: World Cup (11am), bank, Koons Honda to look for a bargain, Old Navy to return something, and the more World Cup (3pm). I will probably feed the baby in there at some point. I might just let the dogs handle the situation.
E has been good today. We got started a little earlier than usual, but we are surviving. Above is a picture of E holding onto his horsey before he threw him off the changing table. Below is a picture of what happens if you squeeze the horsey to tight. EEEEWWWW!!!!
PEACE Monkeys!

Day 2 of SAHD

Here is Evan's outfit for today. He woke up before mommy left for work. She changed him and I fed him. Then we slept in the big bed and layed around until 9am. I changed Evan's clothes and we went downstairs to check out what was on TV. He was crying while I was putting all of the bottles together, so I gave him a bottle and he was fine. Then as he was on the couch, he fell alseep again. I took him upstairs to the big bed so I could take a shower and now here I am. I think I hear him making noise. I will go check on him. We have PT at 130pm.

Peace monkeys!

First Day of SAHD

Well Little E got up right before 6. I plugged a bottle in him. We went back to sleep on the big bed until about 9. Plugged him again. We went downstairs so he could talk with his friends in the pack and play. Then he wanted to sit on the couch and talk with me while we watch "The Longest Yard." As we were watching the movie, he decided he wanted to fall asleep in my arms. When the movie was over, I put him down in the big bed so I could take a shower. He is still sleeping and I am bored. This stuff ain't so hard.

This is a pic of E this morning. I took one of him completely naked, but I thought that could be seen as child pornography. You know that there are sexual predators out there.

I think I will go make some lunch...the preheated oven just beeped.

Plans for the afternoon include: feeding baby, talk to baby, tummy time, TV, pick up mommy.

Where are you from?

The other day I attended the my county's fitness festival. This is where the top kids from each elementary school come together and compete in a mini Olympics based on their fitness test scores at their school. Each kid was a card to pin on the back of his or her shirt which told the timers what school the kid was from and the events that he or she was competing in.

One timer (another PE teacher) came up to me and told me the following story about a kid after she had finished the 800 meter run. The student did not have a card on her back. So the teacher told the student that she finished in 2 minutes and 45 seconds. The teacher then asked where the student was from. The student replied, "Mexico." The teacher wanted to know the school, not the country or origin.

That is what happens when you live in the Mexico of Virginia.