Protected: The deal
June 22 9:42 am
Where am I and what am I doing?
May 17 10:23 pm
Well, it looks a bit like this . . . (not me, but I’ve sat at the desk, doing the same thing)
What’s been going on?
March 21 9:57 pm
Perhaps this will make it all clear for you . . .
Dear Hickory Hardware,
I am having a bad day, and I hope you can help me. I have twins who are turning three on Monday, and as they’ve learned to escape their cribs, they’ve begun destroying their room during every nap. Books and blocks and clothes and all the baby wipes pulled out of the package — everywhere, everyday. After weeks of intending to get around to it, we’ve finally cleaned their room of most of the debris, and drove the 25 minutes to Lowe’s to buy some flip-locks to keep them out of their closets. This was going to be it– the night the room was not destroyed! Peace would reign! I rushed home to install them before bedtime, hoping tonight would be the night that they would not be able to get into anything and have no choice but to SLEEP!!!
Alas, the flip-locks were installed and frankly, they suck. I have one I bought a number of years ago from Home Depot and the mechanism on that one is so tight that most adults struggle with it. Not the case with Hickory Hardware item #1843. With one of the two I purchased, you jiggle the door within the jam and the flip-lock flies open. With the other one, the little slit part is so wide that, where it’s supposed to hold the flip part at a 90 degree angle, it’s more like a 135 degree angle, and any toddler could tug the door right open, revealing books and blocks and baby wipes to be flung about the room willy-nilly.
I can’t tell you how frustrated I am. Between drive time and wandering about the store to find them, it took an hour and 2 gallons of gas ($5) to buy $4 worth of sub-standard flip-locks. I don’t get it — they’re not exactly complicated machinery — why can’t they just be made to work as they’re supposed to? I realize they are not big money-makers for you, but does that mean your customers should be ripped off? These stupid little flip locks were supposed to be the highlight of my miserable day, and instead these simple little things were shoddily made and I wasted $9 and an hour on them.
Please make it all better.
Thank you,
Meira Voirdire
Bullet points
February 27 3:28 pm
*Operation Twin Toddlers to Big Kid Bed looked like it was going to be seamless, but was actually a fail.
*Going off your meds can cause you to cry when pondering the wonderfulness of a friend. Like, you’re driving along in your car, and a song makes you think of a friend, and you think of how great that friend is, and then you cry. And then another song makes you think of another friend, and you think of how great *they* are, and you cry some more.
*Or maybe it was because you were going to the shelter to pick up a sick cat to take to rescue & be treated, but when you got there the cat had died. Sigh.
*Spouse has work! Not a lot, but some — a 30 hr/week temp job that should run for six months. There’s a lot or rice in our future, but at least the temp agency provides benefits.
*Foster dogs getting adopted is GREAT.
*Foster cats getting adopted, only to have the person email you and say they ‘found another kitten! and won’t be able to adopt yours’ is NOT.
Lastly, I am out of ideas for dinner. What did you cook recently?