at the moment I am very frustrated. So I am going to vent. Ready?
I have finally reached a point where I am able to start the bathroom re-do that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I am putting up some panel molding and repainting the guest bath. So, yesterday I went to Lowe's and found the trim I need and had the girl cut it all for me since we do not own a saw. Which, yes I know is expensive, but it seems to me that there have been enough times where one of us has wished that we had one that we probably should just get one. Anyway, the girl cut everything for me. fine. So today I am looking at it and most of the stuff is 1/4 inch too long. It would have been better if she had cut it a foot too long. What the hell am I supposed to do about that?
The next part that is frustrating is the baseboard I bought yesterday is too narrow at the top and won't work for what I am trying to do. So I went back today to get stuff that would work. All I could find was huge baseboard that was wide enough at the top. So I muscle it down and bring the 12 foot piece over to the cut table where I press the button and wait for 5 minutes. Finally a different girl shows up and is acting annoyed by my very presence. I tell her my measurements and she haughtily marks them. So we get the piece on the cutter and she types in her code to start the machine. It doesn't start. So she types in a different code, then a different one... She does this about 10 times and then the fan on the machine turns on so she tries to pull the saw down and it won't go, so she making all kinds of lame maneuvers to get it down, none of which look like the right thing to do to me, but what do I know, then she says "it's broken." in a pretty bitchy tone of voice.
So what comes out of my mouth is "well, it was working last night." To which she replies, "well, that was last night, and today it's broken." So I am trying to delicately ask her if there is someone else in the store who knows what the hell they're doing. She says I could call everyone else in the store and no one will be able to fix it. Once it's locked out someone has to come in from corporate to fix it. So I'm wondering, does it being locked out have anything to do with the fact that you punched in a wrong code 10 times?
So she asks me if I still want the piece, then says "sorry" like she suddenly just realized I'm not at some kind of fault for wanting to spend money in her store. Like she cares. Anyway.
So I found shorter pieces of something that will probably work better in the long run, so everything happens for a reason, blah blah blah whatever. It still isn't cut is the point.
So, here I am, ready to do this damn thing, and I have to wait for other people. And let me tell you that is probably about the thing that drives me the most crazy. And that is saying a lot because there are a lot of things that drive me crazy. But being ready to do something, and having to wait on other people's time and equipment is about the worst thing to me.
So I suppose this is why people just hire other people to do these things. But sometimes, I really just want to do stuff like this. And it is very frustrating that I just feel like I should be saying "I'm a girl, I can't do it."
I have finally reached a point where I am able to start the bathroom re-do that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I am putting up some panel molding and repainting the guest bath. So, yesterday I went to Lowe's and found the trim I need and had the girl cut it all for me since we do not own a saw. Which, yes I know is expensive, but it seems to me that there have been enough times where one of us has wished that we had one that we probably should just get one. Anyway, the girl cut everything for me. fine. So today I am looking at it and most of the stuff is 1/4 inch too long. It would have been better if she had cut it a foot too long. What the hell am I supposed to do about that?
The next part that is frustrating is the baseboard I bought yesterday is too narrow at the top and won't work for what I am trying to do. So I went back today to get stuff that would work. All I could find was huge baseboard that was wide enough at the top. So I muscle it down and bring the 12 foot piece over to the cut table where I press the button and wait for 5 minutes. Finally a different girl shows up and is acting annoyed by my very presence. I tell her my measurements and she haughtily marks them. So we get the piece on the cutter and she types in her code to start the machine. It doesn't start. So she types in a different code, then a different one... She does this about 10 times and then the fan on the machine turns on so she tries to pull the saw down and it won't go, so she making all kinds of lame maneuvers to get it down, none of which look like the right thing to do to me, but what do I know, then she says "it's broken." in a pretty bitchy tone of voice.
So what comes out of my mouth is "well, it was working last night." To which she replies, "well, that was last night, and today it's broken." So I am trying to delicately ask her if there is someone else in the store who knows what the hell they're doing. She says I could call everyone else in the store and no one will be able to fix it. Once it's locked out someone has to come in from corporate to fix it. So I'm wondering, does it being locked out have anything to do with the fact that you punched in a wrong code 10 times?
So she asks me if I still want the piece, then says "sorry" like she suddenly just realized I'm not at some kind of fault for wanting to spend money in her store. Like she cares. Anyway.
So I found shorter pieces of something that will probably work better in the long run, so everything happens for a reason, blah blah blah whatever. It still isn't cut is the point.
So, here I am, ready to do this damn thing, and I have to wait for other people. And let me tell you that is probably about the thing that drives me the most crazy. And that is saying a lot because there are a lot of things that drive me crazy. But being ready to do something, and having to wait on other people's time and equipment is about the worst thing to me.
So I suppose this is why people just hire other people to do these things. But sometimes, I really just want to do stuff like this. And it is very frustrating that I just feel like I should be saying "I'm a girl, I can't do it."
1 comment:
Just to put another nail in your coffin..or call your neighbor she has a saw. I also hate waiting on others incompetence. -heidi
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