{"id":462,"date":"2008-04-20T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/not-as-helpful-as-they-could-have-been\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T20:13:00","slug":"not-as-helpful-as-they-could-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/not-as-helpful-as-they-could-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"not as helpful as they could have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My room-mate asked me to go to Lowe&#8217;s to pick up some dirt for some minor lawn repair &#8211; the deal being that if I got the dirt, I wouldn&#8217;t be obligated to do any actual work.   Seemed like a good deal to me.<\/p>\n<p>I headed over to Lowe&#8217;s and grabbed a shopping cart, then headed back to the garden area.  The instructions were &#8220;two large bags of cheap dirt&#8221; &#8211; which I found in the non-roofed section of the area.    One of the bags had broken open and with the recent rains, all the bags were pretty much covered in mud.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a strong person.   I can swim forever, but I&#8217;m just not physically strong.   So, it required a great deal of effort to get the first bag up onto the cart  &#8211; and I ended up covered in mud. <\/p>\n<p>A sales clerk came over and offered to get me a flat cart.  I said that would be great and he wandered away to find it &#8211; then brought it back.   And then he &#8211; this much taller and obviously stronger guy &#8211; watched while I struggled to move the bag from one cart to another, then add a second bag.  He took the first cart away and I headed to the front of the store.<\/p>\n<p>I got in a short line at the checkout and waited, I think, .5 forevers as the cashier struggled with the transaction.   Eventually, I gave up and moved over a lane.   The cashier there was very friendly, but a little daft.   She blamed it on the cold medicine when she inadvertently did a split transaction and I had to run my card twice.  While the second transaction was processing, she reached down and got a tissue.   I thought she was going to offer it to me since my hands &#8211; and the rest of me &#8211; was covered in dirt.  Instead, she blew her nose.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got out to the car and struggled again with the bags to get them in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of opportunities for the crew there to really make my day better &#8211; but instead I got the minimum and it ended up being more work than my room-mate had when he dumped the dirt onto the lawn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-4101528755108629780?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My room-mate asked me to go to Lowe&#8217;s to pick up some dirt for some minor lawn repair &#8211; the deal being that if I got the dirt, I wouldn&#8217;t be obligated to do any actual work. Seemed like a good deal to me. I headed over to Lowe&#8217;s and grabbed a shopping cart, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}