6.3.07

Sunday:

I attempt to make some room on the DVR by watching two episodes of Studio 60, the last minute of the second one brought tears to my eyes. The more I watch the more annoyed I get that this show got the boot. My mom asks me if I'll take her to Homo Depot so she can purchase a new blind since the one she has no longer functions. I also get bamboozled into installing it. We walk around trying to find someone, anyone to help us which is always the case at Home Depot and Lowes. I push the assistance button several times over the course of fifteen minutes. At one point my mom leaves me stranded in the aisle holding the blind while she attempts to track someone down. After five minutes I begin to fear that she got sucked into the Home Depot black hole, and I will never see her again. She finally walks around the corner with some girl who seems very eager to help us. After I begin to ask her a question or two she appears to buckle under the pressure, snapping she is a "flooring girl" and really has no idea what to tell me about blinds. As I think to myself, "the why the hell are you cutting my mother's blind if you in fact have no idea about blinds," when a second woman joins us. She apparently is the blind expert and all questions are told to be directed at her. She's a bit more helpful and tells my mother that her two-year-old blind shouldn't have stopped working (you think?) and offers to replace it for free. We're both a little surprised by this, then we thank her and run the hell away from her before she changed her mind.