Errand Day

We went into the Scottsdale Costco this afternoon to return Forry's shorts for the second time. This time I took along a tape measure to check waist sizes -- oh, how I wish they had fitting rooms! -- and hopefully the new ones are neither too large nor too small. (Both of which they've been!)

Our first stop was at Lowe's. The ground at the RV Park is too hard -- and has too many pipes and wires running through it -- to put the stand for my gossiping crows up. So we went shopping for a two by six board or something similar to use for a stand. The clerk at Lowes said they didn't sell lumber scraps, but the lady at the desk said that actually they could, they just had to get a manager's okay. We found a 37" chunk of 2x6 in the scrap box (that said NOT FOR SALE on it) and the fellow not only got an okay to sell it to us for seventy-eight cents, but sawed it into three equal pieces for me! Now all Forry's got to do is to glue it all together and drill a couple of holes...

We've had a $50 gift card from PF Chang's that we've been wanting to use for quite a while now and we decided today was the day. We had some wonderful soup and were enjoying the signature chicken lettuce cups as the appetizer. We were only about halfway finished with the appetizer when a fellow -- who turned out to be the manager -- showed up with our entrees. He said, "Oops, looks like these came up a little too fast. How about I take them back to the kitchen until you're ready."

That seemed to be a good thing and we proceeded to enjoy our lettuce cups. Our waiter cleared away the little plates and brought the larger dinner ones. Then we waited, and waited some more. Finally, the manager came back out apologetically and said our entrees had gotten burned and he had them remake them. He also told us he would take care of us...

Well, we didn't eat but about half of our entrees as we were pretty full, so they got boxed up. But, we did find room for The Great Wall of Chocolate -- at least for a few bites of it anyway. That came home in a box as well. About that time the manager came back. He apologized again and gave us his card, telling us to give him a call next time we came in and dinner would be on the house. Attached was a forty dollar gift card!

Hmm, I think it was another good day!