"this ain't no mall"

my fourth trip back for painting supplies. this should do it!

i've gone to home depot about 3 times now. every single time, i've walked out of that testosterone laden place with a headache. a big fat, advil-ain't-gonna-to-fix-it kind of headache. ugh.

the second time i went to home depot was the most time consuming. it took me about 2 hours to get what i need. that's because i was planning to buy all my painting supplies that day. prior to going, i had made a list of things to get, but honestly, once you stare at the aisles upon aisles of supplies that vary in brands and what not, it's quite overwhelming indeed. my well planned out trip became a freakin' nightmare...until i met home depot dan. hi dan!

dan was a sweaty employee running about the painting area. i snagged him and started off the conversation with..."i have a quick question about painting...." yeah right! i had him stay with me for an hour! he pretty much helped me piece together the supplies i needed. he definitely leaned towards the more expensive items, but i would lean it back and grabbed the more "affordable" ones. anyways, at one point, i was asking him about the type of gloop i needed to spackle the nail holes in my walls. the convo was quite amusing:

me: i need to spackle some holes.

dan: how many holes do you have?

me: *smiling* mouth, ears, nostrils, anus..... j/k i said THAT part in my head.
me: i don't know...5? *smiling of course*

then dan had to leave and help other folks. but by that time, my cart was fully loaded. some XXX amount of dollars poorer, i walked out of home depot with a ton of crap. it was a shopping spree for sure, but there wasn't one single pair of shoes in there. what a sad little shopping spree it was.