sometimes i wonder how i live… July 23, 2008

i’d like you to take a moment and imagine this scene in your head.

it’s about 4 o’clock on monday. tuesday is supposed to be “water day” at camp. i have this brilliant idea for a relay race that involves pvc pipes (the relay race is a whole totally different story!), so i take a little trip to home depot to purchase said pipes.

i wander around the store for awhile, and finally find what i am looking for. i pick up the 8 foot pipes, one under each arm, and try to make my way to the front of the store, meanwhile knocking people over left and right. i finally reach the register, where i am totally mocked by the guy at the check out. i pay for the pipes and head out to my car….

where i realize that my car is not 8 feet long, and thus there is no way these pipes are going to fit inside. i must have looked like such a fool trying to get them in every which way, but really no matter what i did they would not fit!

so i picked them back up and headed back into the store, praying i wouldn’t knock anymore innocent bystanders over. i walk to the customer service desk and told them that the pipes wouldn’t fit in my car and asked if they could saw them in half for me. they kindly told me to go to plumbing, where someone could help me.

except when i explained my dilemma to the sweethearts in plumbing, they told me they could not saw them for me, but that they could give me a saw.

and so they did.

they handed me a saw. in the middle of an aisle in home depot. and i began sawing. in the middle of an aisle in home depot. and nobody helped me. and i looked like the biggest freak of nature on this planet.

ALL FOR THOSE KIDS AND THEIR WATER DAY!