I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson
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Plot twist, Home Depot called me and asked if I meant to make five identical orders. Like a person caught for a crime and in jail, I couldn't help but brag about it. So rather than do the smart thing and just tell him yes, it was intentional, I also told him my shameful reasoning. He said "okaaaay", one of those drawn out "okaaaay"s where his voice raised at the end, then put me on hold. Then I got disconnected a minute later.
Education is extremely important.
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We needed 75 bags of mulch so I paid the $80 flat delivery fee and added a bunch of other heavy shit, including 500 pounds of sand, 300 pounds of river rock, 400 pounds of salt (for the softener), an A-frame ladder, and a 22-foot extension ladder. Anyway... flat fee FTW, I got all of that delivered. Joke was on me as I had to manually move it from the driveway to the backyard and other places, which my back thanked me for the next morning.
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I’ve never ordered mulch in bags. I just call a mulch company and they truck it and dump it, spread it, or spray it, whatever my preference. Is it cheaper to go to Home Depot?
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Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Actually, this is what most people do here if they have an older truck.
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@Copper said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I brought 110 bags home in 6 trips in my suv, no charge.
That’s a Texan, right there. He might have been born in New England and lived in Virginia, but that’s Texan…
The Brad
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@Copper said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I brought 110 bags home in 6 trips in my suv, no charge.
That assumes your own time and labor are “free.”
@Axtremus said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
@Copper said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I brought 110 bags home in 6 trips in my suv, no charge.
That assumes your own time and labor are “free.”
Free? It would have cost Copper $110 for a gym membership to get the same workout. He received extra value from this.
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I’ve never ordered mulch in bags. I just call a mulch company and they truck it and dump it, spread it, or spray it, whatever my preference. Is it cheaper to go to Home Depot?
@blondie said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I’ve never ordered mulch in bags. I just call a mulch company and they truck it and dump it, spread it, or spray it, whatever my preference. Is it cheaper to go to Home Depot?
Me too. Then I pay them to spread it out. God, I hate yardwork.
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Plot twist, Home Depot called me and asked if I meant to make five identical orders. Like a person caught for a crime and in jail, I couldn't help but brag about it. So rather than do the smart thing and just tell him yes, it was intentional, I also told him my shameful reasoning. He said "okaaaay", one of those drawn out "okaaaay"s where his voice raised at the end, then put me on hold. Then I got disconnected a minute later.
@Horace said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Plot twist, Home Depot called me and asked if I meant to make five identical orders. Like a person caught for a crime and in jail, I couldn't help but brag about it. So rather than do the smart thing and just tell him yes, it was intentional, I also told him my shameful reasoning. He said "okaaaay", one of those drawn out "okaaaay"s where his voice raised at the end, then put me on hold. Then I got disconnected a minute later.
Good for you!
The Brad
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Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Houston is a mecca for pickups. I just spec'd out a F-150 XLT Super Crew ... Naturally aspirated 5.0 Coyote V8, 2WD, 10 speed tranny with with limited slip rear axle, mid-level option package, chrome wheels and bumpers. Specified the color Atlas Blue Metallic.
Good mid-level truck.
Truck is $53,815 before negotiation, in Houston.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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I’ve never ordered mulch in bags. I just call a mulch company and they truck it and dump it, spread it, or spray it, whatever my preference. Is it cheaper to go to Home Depot?
@blondie said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I’ve never ordered mulch in bags. I just call a mulch company and they truck it and dump it, spread it, or spray it, whatever my preference. Is it cheaper to go to Home Depot?
We add northern white cedar mulch throughout our backyard every 3 years, that's a dump and spread job I'll hire for, definitely. The front/side need regular brown mulch, it's about $2 per bag (2 cubic feet) so about $125... yes lots of plastic bags, which I feel slightly bad about until I realize I live in Minnesota and any global warming caused by plastic waste will only increase my property value.
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Our lawn guy offered to do the whole job from supplying the mulch to putting it down, but last time we did that, the mulch grew mushrooms immediately and they were everywhere. Slime molds too. My wife was displeased. So now we're supplying the mulch and the lawn guy will put it down for $150.
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@Horace said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Plot twist, Home Depot called me and asked if I meant to make five identical orders. Like a person caught for a crime and in jail, I couldn't help but brag about it. So rather than do the smart thing and just tell him yes, it was intentional, I also told him my shameful reasoning. He said "okaaaay", one of those drawn out "okaaaay"s where his voice raised at the end, then put me on hold. Then I got disconnected a minute later.
Good for you!
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
@Horace said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Plot twist, Home Depot called me and asked if I meant to make five identical orders. Like a person caught for a crime and in jail, I couldn't help but brag about it. So rather than do the smart thing and just tell him yes, it was intentional, I also told him my shameful reasoning. He said "okaaaay", one of those drawn out "okaaaay"s where his voice raised at the end, then put me on hold. Then I got disconnected a minute later.
Good for you!
Thanks. I made $45 on the heist, and I didn't have to leave my chair.
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@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Houston is a mecca for pickups. I just spec'd out a F-150 XLT Super Crew ... Naturally aspirated 5.0 Coyote V8, 2WD, 10 speed tranny with with limited slip rear axle, mid-level option package, chrome wheels and bumpers. Specified the color Atlas Blue Metallic.
Good mid-level truck.
Truck is $53,815 before negotiation, in Houston.
@Jolly said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Houston is a mecca for pickups. I just spec'd out a F-150 XLT Super Crew ... Naturally aspirated 5.0 Coyote V8, 2WD, 10 speed tranny with with limited slip rear axle,
I thought trannys were illegal in Texas? Oh, wait, Austin…
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@Copper said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
I brought 110 bags home in 6 trips in my suv, no charge.
That’s a Texan, right there. He might have been born in New England and lived in Virginia, but that’s Texan…
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
That’s a Texan, right there. He might have been born in New England and lived in Virginia, but that’s Texan…
Actually Texas was home for a while during the 70s.
This is what I drove at the time, mulch would have been a problem. I always wanted long horns on the hood, I never got around to it.
This can handle 20+ 2 cubic feet bags, no problem.
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I don’t know, that trunk on the coupe would have been pretty damn big.
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@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Actually, this is what most people do here if they have an older truck.
@blondie said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
@LuFins-Dad said in I wonder if Home Depot will learn its lesson:
Communist wuss… A real Texan would have drove his pickup over and picked them up himself…
Actually, this is what most people do here if they have an older truck.
That’s why I hang on to my old 3/4 ton Chev long box. Over the course of any given summer its usefulness is cheaper than delivery charges or the rental of a utility trailer for hauling.
