Monday, December 5, 2011

Supporting (indirectly) the oil companies via driving ourselves crazy!

Another day another dollar for all those other guys!
Yes, we support the economy, a little, in our own way, by shopping for things we need like a tomato plant some basil and rosemary seeds, a toilet seat (a bit of a delicate topic) and oh yes, groceries!

Let me explain why I feel the oil companies will be happy we were seemingly so befuddled with trying to replace my bathroom's toilet seat with one fairly as nice as the previous one, how odd you say, sure, but that’s me…
You see the original, which now has been replaced twice since the bathroom was refurbished after the rebuild after the hurricane… and the one chosen for the seashell theme in that feminine girly bathroom that is also a bit Victorian minus the claw-foot tub, but pedestal sink and oval mirror over it. The seat of importance had seashells embedded in the Lucite, making it not only keeping within the seashore theme but also a rather nice touch. Unfortunately, the metal parts that attached it to the toilet apparently did not hold up well to the bleach or other products used in maintaining its cleanliness and it cracked and broke. The idea at first as usual was to buy the nonperishable items first of course, which we did do… but we ended going foolishly on somewhat of a scavenger hunt for the seat. I was being logical when I said to Hubby that after two times the metal fasteners breaking we should not get the same one. It was apparent to me that it was a flaw in the design; we had never gone through that sort of thing so often before… I even thought due to my large size that I could be responsible, but Hubby straightened me out right away and said, no, because where it broke on the upright fastener on just the one side. He did study engineering for five years and so I trust his knowledge on those things.

And so we set out on our journey with an open mind to find the perfect toilet seat for the perfect ladies bathroom, by the way, his bathroom is all oak and masculine!
Any-who, we first stopped at Lowe’s and gave their assortment a once over, the newest idea in this sort of thing appears to be one that fits the adult and toddler tushies, two seaters, one inside of the other and also the not crashing down, slow release or slow go down seats.
Who would have thunk it, hmm?
But most all were white or off white with not much personality, only one had a scroll detail that I sort of responded to in my design mind, and of course those soft cushiony ones too, had one once and found it hard to keep clean.
So we went on to Home Depot with the same or similar products and so off to Walmart and again nothing new here, but we finally ended up at Target where I originally bought those seashell ones, and guess what?
None there anymore, must have been having that problem too and customers told them; boy I should have said something, how odd for me not to, huh?

We had gotten the tomato plant ( our seedlings were taking too long and the lettuce was way ahead, in growth, ha I made a funny!) and seeds at Home Depot and so Hubby suggested that we get the one at Lowe’s and so we did… see around, and around we go where we stop nobody knows!
Oh, that’s right we do… gas wasted there’s my reference to the help to the poor little ole oil companies, ha, but we have all the time in the world so who cares about wasted more of that commodity!
We had stopped for lunch out earlier between stores at Panera's and before the grocery and so it was a full day out and something productive to do.

The seat looks great and fits well with my décor, girly.
Haven’t needed to try it out yet, but uh oh TMI!
That’s me…
On that incredibly ridiculous hunt for something so very necessary… and you do know that there is a country that calls ala toilettes, necessaries?
Moving on now... and kindly allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Janet from Tuesday Morning in Tampa's district office did contact me when we arrived back home and we discussed how to improve entrée into their stores for people with physical challenges. She seemed quite receptive and truly concerned and determined to change it for the better; only time will tell.

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