Monday, July 2, 2007

Shade. We Need Shade.

We spent a sad and fruitless 4 hours yesterday trying to purchase one of those pretty shade structures; I'm sure you've seen them at department stores. Turns out, it's late in the season, and pretty much every one that we wanted was down to the display only. Buying the display of a gazebo like that is NOT the same as buying, say, the last lawn mower, or Christmas tree. WHAT an ordeal. TWICE the stores confirmed with great (and kind of patronizing) earnestness that they had one in stock in the box, and twice they subsequently lightly informed us that "that was a ghost location." Whatever. Then end result for us was 2 hours in one store, a resigned trip of about 15 miles to another store, and empty-handed departure. Hotter than we were before, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Dentist and doctors today. And hot again, I'm sure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not sure how fancy of a gazebo you need but BigLots on Sheridan had some for $15 right inside the front door.

cb said...

If you're ever looking for a bargain, my sister is the one to ask!