You may have seen over there in the House Proud section that we’re redoing one of our bathrooms. Yesterday the better-half stopped by Lowe’s to pick up the new granite countertop and sink. We planned on taking one of the backsplashes with us to the tile store. We opened the box and discovered shards of granite everywhere. Not ever having opened a box with a granite countertop in it, we weren’t sure at first what to make of all the shards. Then we lifted the styrofoam off and discovered why there were so many shards. The nice ogeed edge was shattered. Then we noticed the countertop was cracked in half.
I’m pretty surprised the smoke alarm didn’t go off because of how mad I was. So, let me get this straight, someone dropped the box, put it back on the truck or put it wherever Lowe’s special orders sit and then they let us pick it up and take it home. Did someone think we wouldn’t notice?
I’m not sure if it is us or Lowe’s but somehow something like this happens whenever we spend more than $50 there. Thankfully, the woman working the return counter gave us our money back without any questions.
We’ve ordered a Silestone quartz countertop from Home Depot. The ordering process was heinous and I really don’t understand how there can only be one person in the entire store that knows how to type in information off the order sheet into their computer system. The better-half finally got someone to help him this morning–we went to two Home Depots last night and neither store had two people capable enough to type in an order and take money from us.
In other puzzling news, at our nearby Home Depot, there was an old and small chest freezer sitting in the parking lot. Like someone decided “Hey I’m at Home Depot, I think I’ll kick this thing off the back of my truck into the parking lot.” Classy.