I am the type of person that wants to read all the litature on items I purchase. This includes the printing on the outside of the box and all. I used to be able to read it myself as when this story happened, now I have to have the wife read it to me now. About 20 years ago, in the early years of our marriage, I needed a framing square. I was just starting to collect my tools back then. So off to the local Home Depot store we go. My favorite store. When for what ever reason the wife decides she wants to go to the competitor store, Lowes! I prefer Home Depot to Lowes, but what the heck a square is a square no matter where you purchase it. We got to Lowes and I picked out my square. I was pleased to see a 7 or 8 inch cardboard sleeve picked to the wide arm of the square. This sleeve had the brand name on the front of it and a whole bunch of little printing and maybe even a chart on the back of it. Looking forward to reading all about my new framing square on the ride home, we proceeded to the check out lane. We happened to pick a lane with some battle Ax of a woman as the cashier flapping her gums with a coworker and not paying much attention to what she was doing. She scanned my new framing square, and I paid for it. As I was putting my wallet away, she reaches under the counter and comes up and slaps a 6 inch, sold sticker smack dab across all that fine print I was so looking forward to reading! I was flabbergasted! Almost speechless. I managed to stammer, You just, you just, you, you, put that sticker across the directions I wanted to read! She looks at me for a moment, then this Hag, reaches across the counter, puts her hand on my forearm, and say's, "I'm sorry honey, do you want me to get someone to show you how to use a square? I again could not come up with anything to say, as I was to busy pulling my wife out of the store before she fell on the floor laughing at me! Last weekend I stupidly told my wife that she could change the spray on the weed killer by twisting the nozzle. She looked at me and said, Do you want me to get someone to show you how to use a square? Cracked me up.
KP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
