Showing posts with label Home Depot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home Depot. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
tornado safe
The past few days I've been at my dad's a lot painting his bathroom. Long story, it was horrible, the end.
Anyways yesterday when we were on our way back from Home Depot for the second time the skies opened up and unleashed their fury. I guess it's been a while since I've spent a winter in Florida but I only remember it raining like that in the summer. I mean it was a torrential downpour. I was eager to get back, finish painting, and get home for several reasons. Mostly I was curious to see if my roof leaked or not. It rained decently hard right after I got my car and the roof leaked right where the window rolls up in to the rubber lining around the door. You could see that there was a place where the rubber was torn so I figured that's where it was and pointed it out to them when they were fixing everything else that was broken. So this was the first time that it had rained hard again and I was anxious to make sure the job worked. I also wanted to get home before the weather got any worse because that car does not handle puddles well at all. It actually makes me kind of nervous for the summer, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Of course the roof still leaked all the way home. I also noticed that the passenger side leaks in the same exact place, so I don't think it's necessarily anything to do with anything besides the roof being janky. It did seem to let up after a while of driving so I thought maybe it was just all the water that came in when I opened the door to get in but then why would the passenger side have had a drip in the same place when I hadn't opened it all day? Janky.
But back to the point. I finished at my dad's and then hurried out and headed home. Apparently shortly after I left my father saw on the news that there was a tornado warning in effect for the next several hours and they were telling people not only to stay off the roads but to stay away from the windows in their homes! I of course missed all this because I was talking on the phone with Jon the whole way home. So I walk through the kitchen door and find the detective laying here. I could not figure out what his deal was until I saw the texts on my phone and realized that he must have sensed the tornado and was trying to go somewhere he thought was safe? Scott said that the kitchen is the safest room in the house because it's completely enclosed by heavy brick, and that he must have just been trying to get as low as possible in there.
But I mean really kitty? Your head barely fits under there and your entire backside is just hanging out in the open. I think this would be the perfect example of how sometimes he's just a little dramatic. Yes, there was a lot of rain and lightning and thunder, and there was a tornado warning in effect, but Scott and I still went back out and got Chic-Fil-A during all that. There really was no need for the theatrics.
I guess it's reassuring to know that in the event of another weather emergency he will let us know by acting completely ridiculous. It's like living with Al Roker.
Friday, January 14, 2011
adventures at Home Depot
First of all this is some Sybil shit going on here and I like it. Whether he's Bob, Tom, or Clay II, I trust that he does in fact purify the air. I mean he is essentially a real life Mr. Clean so I don't see why it's not possible.
Florida is a funny place in that there are all these gigantic stores that were built because of unlimited space and budgets, but now sit empty because they won't hire anybody to work in them. Best Buy has about 15 registers but I've never seen more than one person working at a register at any given time. Home Depot on the other hand always seems to be teeming with employees, milling about and cracking jokes like it's Showtime at the Apollo. They all seemed really interested in why I was taking this picture so I finally said, "I just like that he purifies the air" and this one older guy looks at me and goes, "Oh he does a lot more than that".
Other gems from our trip to Home Depot included this guy:
I wonder what makes it macho. Or is it all an act? Like when Edd picks fights with me when we're drunk and then rips off my necklace but immediately starts blubbering like a baby and apologizing for it. Reeeeaaaal tough guy you got there Ariel.
But the real icing on the cake that was my adventure yesterday was when a certain special surprise came whipping around the corner in the appliances department. The woman pushing the cart did not seem to be the nicest person ever so I decided to try and take a candid photo instead of asking her outright if I could. Here's the best that I could do:
There are three of them and they are wearing matching pink sweaters with rhinestone collars and I swear every single one of them looked me in the eyes and smiled at me. I want to be her when I grow up. After she left the appliances area I could still figure out where in the store they were because I would just hear gentle grumbling and snuffling coming from the aisle next to me or wherever. They were so nice!!!!!
And they say New York is full of characters. NYC has got nothing on southern florida.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
that's what she said
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)





