"Upscale" wrote in message
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"Lobby Dosser" wrote in message
know how they manage it, but you can walk in there and ask a fresh faced,
new HS grad if they've got a 7mm Ratrafratz Bolt and get told to go to
aisle 4, 2nd cabinet on the left, 3rd row, 2nd drawer from the left - and
*find* it right where they told you to look! Also the kind of place where
you can walk in with a problem you don't know how to solve and walk out
with a solution and the materials to do the job.

There aren't too many places like that around anymore, but I do have to
concede that the Home Depot I go to has many older employees and most of
them have the experience with stuff to be able to help me out when I'm
having a problem. The greatest difficulty that I experience is getting
them
to understand what I want to buy. It's usually some type of esoteric
fastener of some type, just that my experience and names for something
doesn't always match theirs.

i don't know about that. a few years ago i had to search out a replacement
valve stem for an old faucet at a hole in the wall place that had stuff on
shelves that you didn't know you needed . lots of knowledgeable guys there.
i happened to find a joker that day who thought that telling me to use a bit
of jb weld inside the valve stem would prevent it from leaking instead of
replacing it.

turned out the manager didn't think it was so funny and he was fired on the
spot.

regards,
charlie
cave creek, az