Here’s an opportunity for you to stop receiving influencer videos as well as magazine reviews for any and everything. I’m here to provide that data to you in an unbiased and cost-free venue that, by the way, is still gluten-free.
I need stuff and, rather than steal it like so many others, I buy it from stores. Living in a remote section of America, shopping choices are thin, to say the least. You need to travel 12-miles to make a one-way trip for gas, cigarettes, toilet paper, and so on. Some quick ciphering means you’ll travel 24-plus miles for pretty much anything.
Our Eastern Shore proximity to nothing is not unique; lots of tiny towns dot the United States requiring extensive travel to buy beer and rolling papers, and even visit an ATM. But living in such a far-removed situation from civilization is also a benefit. Crime can be low, and guvment oversight nearly non-existent.
In any case, today’s review is along the lines of an earlier story describing my adventure-in-commerce with a pizza joint whose name rhymes with Dominoes. Oh, heck, it is Dominoes, (but I’m too lazy to invent a rhyme,) and they should be very proud of their customer relations. After all, their customer relations plans worked in chasing me away – permanently.
I just recently finished building a front porch/deck on my house and needed to make the new pressure treated lumber stairs less slippery. Until staining time to occur in the spring – once the wood dries enough to accept the stain and wood sealer – I immediately saw a demand for stair treads with a rough face and self-adhesive back to keep visitors from making a trip to the hospital.
A stop at a little hardware store called “Lowe’s” for those anti-slip stair treads was, to say the least, fun. After traipsing through most of the Lowe’s my sainted wife and I were unable to locate any semblance of anti-slip stair treads.
The obvious starting point was flooring. There, we found carpeting, ceramic tiles, marble tiles, fake hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, plastic boot trays, among a compendium of glues and mastics, none of which were even close to our needs.
Off to the hardware department where there were screws and fasteners aplenty, but no anti-slip stair treads. The paint department was without a Lowe’s employee to ask. Plumbing, was also sans any hired help. Lumber was everywhere except nary a stock clerk to question on the whereabouts of our stair treads.
We even decided to maneuver the aisles of overpriced blue tools, to no avail. It was at this time my sainted wife thought it was a good time to check her iPhone.
For your information, our iPhones not only field phone calls, they also take pictures, videos, record voice messages, store music, plus have built-in GPS’ to enable you to see exactly how helplessly lost you are. It also has an app that monitors your health.
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| iPhone Health screen |
Sleep rate, hearing, cardio fitness, walking steadiness, even menstrual cycles, are all notifications available on the iPhone Health app. Additionally, though, is something called “steps.” it seems as though steps provides an educated guess at how many steps a person takes while carrying your handy-dandy iPhone.
“11.7,” was my sainted wife’s comment.
“11.7 what?” I asked.
“11.7 miles!” she asserted. “We walked 11.7 miles inside this store today,” she claimed.
On the way out of the store we noticed a cashier looking very bored so, we asked her if she knew where the anti-slip stair tread could be located. She looked into our empty, soulless eyes and said, “No. Do we carry those?”
Evidently not. Which is why I’m wagering Lowe’s will be going out of business. Not for not carrying anti-slip stair treads, but for not caring about two customers walking through their store for about an hour, unable to find a knowledgeable store employee to question regarding where to find a product, then finally leaving that store empty handed.
In retrospect, our 11.7 miles walked amounted to us practically walking to the store from our home. I can assure you and Lowe’s that won’t happen again.
And that’s today’s Consumer Summary Report. Use that information wisely.
