Home Depot. i hate that place. Owning a fixer-upper home mean you make regular trips to this establishment. At first it seems fun: look at all this stuff i can use to fix up my house. Within a month the joy wears off as you receive your credit card statement and see what all those little $20-$50 trips add up to over time.
A few projects in you start measuring your success by how many times you had to interrupt your project to make trips to 'the depo'. Much like mini-golf the lowest number wins. Zen Masters spend a day working with no trips. i'm quite satisfied if i score as low as a one or two. If you convince someone else to make the trip for you it doesn't count on your record because you didn't technically go, nor did you have to stop working to drive there. Unfortunately, while helping a friend build new steps to enter her breezeway a few weeks ago it ended up taking us about 6 or 7 trips before finishing the project. How embarrassing. i rectified this bad home improvement karma, however, by pulling off a ZERO trip day the following weekend. Still puts me at a 3 to 3.5 trip average for the two week period. Not great but i'll take it.
Today, as i was wondering the isles of 'the depo' looking for a piece they didn't have Sheryl Crow reminded me that "good is good" and also that "bad is bad". Brilliant! How does she come up with this stuff? As if reminding me how much work my house still needs and separating me from most of my money is not bad enough, must i also be bombarded with Sheryl Crow music? Doesn't Amnesty International have some sort of torture rules against such abuses?
If some store opened up that charged twice as much but played Black Flag and Dropkick Murphys music over the PA i'd shop there. If they refused to paint or sell anything orange i might pay three times as much.
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