Hi,

allen476 wrote:
That I never drop the scrap pieces?

Murphy's law?

That you never see a BORG employee when you actually need them to
fetch something from the top shelf. But stare at the wood products
while you are making sure of everything you need, there will be 20 of
them asking if you need help.

Well, when I wanted three or four things at the local home-improvement
store, the one assistant that was available for the whole shop had a
loooooong queue of people in front of him. At one hour before closing
there seems to be a "break bell" - no assistants to be found in the
whole market at all and it took me more than 20 minutes to check out the
three things I had finally found by myself. The line in front of the
cash register (three out of seven open) was rather short, but the
cashier had to call for a shop assistant because of something (remember,
they'd disappeared half an hour earlier), so nothing moved for about ten
minutes. The same story at the other registers. While the market is
rather nice inside, the service is really bad. I found myself thinking
that I've never experienced anything like this even in the worst market
in the U.S. or Canada...

Additionally, they sell bicycles, car parts etc. - most of which aren't
worth the effort to bring the stuff from the shelf into your shopping
cart - never trust anything with more than four moving parts in that
kind of store?! But the worst thing of all - people buy this kind of
junk, when they could have much better quality (actually useable) for
only little more money?!

So recently I checked prices for wood at a local wood dealer (instead of
the home-improvement market). The wood would be much cheaper, but I
can't handle 2m x 3m pieces in my hobby room, so I have to pay the more
expensive stuff at the DIY market - they cut it to order... But you have
to put up with the shop assistant being either incompetent or a stupid
jerk (or both) with friendly and competent personnel being the very rare
exception... So if you ever worry about service quality again, just
think of my story: they act as if they don't want me buying stuff there!

Basically the most annoying thing about hobby woodworking is simply
getting the stuff... And finding a spot where to put the finished
product ;-)

Ciao..