We did our search run yesterday for the
supplies we need for installing cabinets and appliances at the church. My first attempt began at Home Depot. I was looking for the two new breakers we
need to install the stove. Electrician
Eric sent me the link to it from the Home Depot website. I looked at ordering it, but the delivery
time was way longer than I expected, so, printed out photo in hand, I thought I
would see if they could find one at a Home Depot somewhere nearby. As I turned down the electrical isle, I immediately
noticed not one, but three orange-vested workers. That just doesn’t happen at Home Depot very
often. I made my way to a position where
I was centered amongst them and waited.
One was engaged in an animated discussion with a customer, so I really didn’t
expect a response from her. The fellow
standing about four feet from me was busily doing inventory and actively doing
all he could to ignore me. The third guy
glanced at me occasionally, though, so I felt he was my best bet. I tore myself away from the ongoing drama of
that little customer altercation, and took some steps toward the third
guy. He saw me coming and knew he was
stuck, so he took a visible deep breath and turned to meet my approach. Of course this orange vested sales associate quickly
explained that he was not “an Electrical Sales Associate,” but he did his
best. He did try to sell me the wrong breaker,
though. Good thing I had the
picture. Finally he left to find someone
who worked in that section – a real Electrical Sales Associate. And as soon as the new guy saw the picture he
said they didn’t carry the bolt-on style.
Of course they didn’t. After
consulting with a few other orange vests who happened to walk by, and after
looking it up on his computer, he was finally able to determine that no one
anywhere close to here, or anywhere else for that matter, would have it in
store. Strictly an online order. But ever helpful, the orange vested Electrical
Sales Associate committee did come up with the name of an electrical supply
house in Galveston.
I went right to their recommendation. Well, not right to it. The instructions they gave me were about ten
blocks off, but google maps set me straight.
Great Electrical Sales Associate there.
Big guy wearing a cowboy hat and a red vest. But that place didn’t have the bolt-on type
either. “As much as I hate to say this,”
Red Vested Electrical Sales Associate began.
And then he recommended yet another supply house. Back on the road again. And as I approached, I realized that the
supply house was actually right across the street from Home Depot. Imagine that.
And it gets better. To get to it I
passed yet a third supply house - right next door to Home Depot. I considered going back inside and letting all
the orange vested Electrical Sales Associates know a little more about the
rivals surrounding them, but I let that pass.
That final supply place did, indeed, have the breakers we needed. Another big guy, but much shorter than the
cowboy-hatted Red Vest, was the Electrical Sales Associate here. This guy had on a work shirt and recognized the
photo instantly. Seems this place was a
distributor for that style of breaker. Wish
I had known that in the first place. But
then, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet so many interesting Electrical
Sales Associates.
2 Timothy 2:23-25 says, “Don't have anything to do with foolish and
stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel;
instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.”
Father, thank you for all the “different”
people you have placed in your crazy mixed up world. Sure makes it fun. Could you send a few of those fun people to
St. Luke’s hospital today for this myelogram?
I could sure use the distraction.
Amen.
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