At least on a holiday weekend, that is. We went there today to get some strips of velcro and a BBQ, and it boggles the mind what a difficult and annoying procedure the whole event was. Whereas I’ve normally found that the orange-clad Home Despot staff were helpful and friendly, today they seemed surly and too busy to bother with people like us trying to pay them hundreds of dollars for a frigging BBQ.

We ended up getting this model, because it was both pretty, seemed well constructed, and wasn’t too large to fit in my car. But to do this we had to wait for quite some time to find a salesperson to write down the bill for us, then we had to track down two different people to get the grill for us… and then because it didn’t fit in my Civic without taking the wings off first I had to wander through the store trying to borrow a screwdriver from someone, literally had to go to five different stations and wait in line at most of those before being shuffled off to the next station.

It wasn’t just that I wasn’t buying something that made the staff unfriendly, even when I was looking for items they were rushed and unhelpful. We ended up not buying a hanging planter from them because we both couldn’t find one and because no one bothered to show us where one was despite asking several busy employees. Meh. I’m definitely going to avoid Home Depot except for times when they aren’t likely to be busy from now on.