I went to Home Depot today with Dennis to help him pick out a new refrigerator. Actually, he had picked it out online already, using the following constraints:
1) It has to be chilly inside
2) It has to be 30 inches wide
3) It has to be cheap
Other than that, all options were wide open. Of course, they only had one model that made the cut, especially number 3.
I think it took about two hours, but things went a little fuzzy after about an hour, so I could be wrong. I do know that I had at least one birthday while I was waiting. I went over to the tool section and looked around until I had all the socket wrench prices memorized and I fully expected Dennis to be married to the sales girl and having two or three kids by the time I got back.
Apparently rebate forms are very time consuming. They had to keep getting new forms out too, as the old ones carbonized and turned to dust with all that passage of time.
This was a semi-emergency because the old McDowell refrigerator had died an untimely death and meat had to be thrown out. My suggestion to him to switch to an all-beef-jerky diet didn't go over well, so he needed a new fridge fast.
The desired model was not in stock, of course, so the sales girl threw out an estimated delivery date that Home Depot no-doubt has no intention whatsoever of meeting, and took his money and sent us on our way.
If he ever gets this thing it will be nice. It's big, featureless, rectangular, and white. Quite a stunning machine, actually. All it needs is a few realtor magnets and some crayon drawings and a picture of aunt Gillian, and the McDowell family will be back in the 20th century.
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There was a fourth constraint. It has to have the freezer on the bottom.
Let me also remind you that you spent less time shopping with me today than you spend having "lunch" with Howard. With me you pass out from boredom. With Howard you pass out from wine. Same outcome, what's the difference.
No need to get "testes".
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