Lost and Found
I’m not saying I’d rather live there, but here’s another midwest story.
If you walk the aisles of our Home Depot you can watch sales people scatter as if you’re the first local case of Avian Flu. In Evansville, in those identical looking aisles, you get real tired of saying, “No, I don’t need any help.â€
On my last visit, with my cart half-filled with plumbing supplies, and now abandoned in a long-forgotten aisle, a sprightly guy in orange walked up to me and said, “Is there anything I can do for you?†I paused, thought to myself should I really ask this, and then I said, “Yes, I lost my shopping cart. Can you find it for me?â€
“I think so, let’s go look at the end of aisle two.â€
Wonderful! That’s exactly the kind of service you’d get at McGuckin’s Hardware here in Boulder. (50 years in service, and voted every year as the best store in town.) But when I feel like I don’t want to talk to anyone and just browse, I go to Home Depot.
Comment by rakkity — April 7, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
As my brother, Peter, would say, I’d sell my soul for a halfpenny.
Comment by michael — April 7, 2007 @ 2:39 pm