A Quick Rant

Yesterday we went to Lowe's to return a lawnmower that broke during its first use. Since Mike was driving, he dropped me off at the front of the store with the mower so that I could get in line while he parked. This, I discovered, was setting myself up to be insulted. As I stepped into the line at customer service, pushing the new looking mower, several "gentlemen" turned around within seconds. "What's wrong with that thing?" Billy Bob says. I reply, "it just suddenly stopped working during its first mow." Abner chimes in, "OH! Didga put gas in it?" I roll my eyes, "Yes, it has gas." "Well, what about oil? You know, oil is important."

I am standing there, shocked that these men think that I am returning a lawnmower because it is out of gas. I will be the first to admit that I don't know a whole lot about machinery, but I'm going to check the gas and then do some research before I take 2 hours of my day to borrow a truck and return something that big.

Thankfully Mike walked in on the conversation, but naturally, now a man was with me, they believed that something may legitimately be wrong with it. "Well, I just don't know," Billy Bob says, "maybe it's a bad engine or something." SIGH.

The situation continued to decline when we decided to get some work gloves while we were there. We picked out matching pairs, paid for them and were riding home when I pulled them out and started to read the packaging.

Apparently the gloves for men have different uses than the same pair of gloves for women. What's up with that?

Clearly, this industry has not entered into the 21st Century.