I feel crappy.
I have had buzzing in my head for over a week now. Stoopid head…
My wife bought me a gas barbecue grill for papa’s day. No, I am not a father. I’d hate to think what kind of dad I would be if I was. I’d probably be one of those weirdo Vincent Price type dad who’s children grow up to be fascist Republican’s just to rebel against their father.
Shiver….
But any way my wife said that we had some money to burn (Aha! literally) and that she wanted me to get a gas grill for our patio. Oh, the joy, the rapture!!! I was to join my ancient ancestors in the art of charring meat to an unrecognizable lump of carbon. Sp began my task of shopping and comparing grills and I decided to go to the Home Depot to purchase it as they had a grill that would offer me the biggest bang for my buck. I arrived at the Downey store and asked the indifferent woman who was working the department. She looked at me as said “You are going to have to wait as I am swamped.” Ok, I can understand that but after waiting twenty minutes I was starting to get miffed. I finally got a clueless looking assistant to start looking for the grill and that went nowhere as they did not have the grill in stock and wouldn’t have until next Monday. I asked if they could call the store in Monrovia (as it was reasonably close to my house) to see if they had any in stock. He did and told me that according to the stock clerk they had 23 in stock. 23 in stock!!! So off I went to Monrovia to pick up my grill.
I arrived at the Monrovia store. Found another haggard employee, was told to wait as she would send someone over to help, waited, meet the assistant and he began to search for the grill. Remember that they told me at the Downey store that the Monrovia store had 23 grills in stock. I was told that they had no such grill in stock. Beyond pissed I commented that on the phone that this store had 23 in #$^%$ stock and that I had driven all the way from Downey. The Home Depot employee unmoved and told me too bad, I should have had the stock clerk to check visually as the one listed on their system may be the one yet to be unpacked from the stock area. Those grills were not going to be unpacked until Saturday afternoon at the latest and that the only way was to have will call, call me if they were the ones I was looking for.
I walked to will call with the grill SKU number told them my story. The nice stock clerk was incensed at my story, took my SKU number and told me to wait. After ten minutes she came over and apologized as she could not find any even though her system said she had 3 in stock. She told me that I probably would be better of finding the grill I needed from someone else as this is unfortunately too common an occurrence.
After that debacle I made up my mind to never again set foot in a Home Depot went to OSH and found the runner up grill that I had also researched. It only took five minutes to purchase the gleaming stainless steel beauty and have it sent to my car. Hmmmm…
Anywho, I spent the next day assembling my grill which kinda looks like a demented R2-D2 and proceeded to test fire it and picked a piece of salmon as my first sacrifice to Kwaj, god of fire.
I burnt that fishy to a crisp…
Muwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, cough, ack…
