Deny me my coffee

Sometimes conversations with TFOLT leaves me a little puzzled.

TFOLT claims he cannot stand coffee. I say he claims, because in 23 years of marriage, I have never seen him bring a cup within 3 feet of his lips. Coffee makes him nervous. It took approximately 16 years of marriage for him to bring me home a latte that he ordered all by himself. It took him another 2 years to be confident enough to purchase a bag of beans. I am pretty sure he would be more comfortable cruising Victoria Secrets then hanging out in a coffee shop. I pointed out to TFOLT today as I was making his sweet tea that he did not have a clue even how to make a cup of coffee. He did correctly guess the beans had to be ground. TFOLT arguments in the past has been he does not drink the stuff so he does not need to know how to make it. It is a total waste of breath for him to be arguing this as I do not drink sweet tea, but I am the chief sweet tea maker in this home and have been for the past 8,498 days (but who really is counting???). I asked TFOLT what would happen if I was totally incapacitated and unable to make it to the kitchen, who would make coffee for me? His response??? "well first off, it would totally depend on why you are incapacitated and how the doctors would feel about you even having a cup coffee". Humph! all this time I thought this man had my back and now he is going to defer what the doctors think? These are the same people that told us eggs are bad, oops wrong information eggs are good for you. Wine you should never drink the stuff. Oh sorry wine I mean it is good that is right it is good for you. Stay away from chocolate, oh wait chocolate is good for you. He is going to take the chance that on any given day the doctor might say oops it is Tuesday, coffee is bad, no soup for you today or should I say no coffee for you today. I am incapacitated! come on give me one thing to look forward too.

Good Bye Home Depot!

I hate Home Depot. Hate is a strong word but really that is how I feel. Every time I go into that store I am left with huge regret and leave asking myself, why do I bother coming here?. The store is so huge, I can never find anything I need. When you ask for help, the staff acts like you are interrupting their social time with other staff members. Unfortunately where we live at the big box store type hardware store is the only hardware type store we have. Three times, I had been to the big box store trying to get a clamp for our window. Three times, I got the run around and left without the clamp. It is very frustrating when you have to beg for help. I guess Home Depot does not need this little person's business. That is fine by me because we finally got a real hardware store where we live at. How do I know it is a real hardware store? Well one,  they have the obligatory older man. You know, he is retired but comes in a couple of days to work because he loves his job so much! So opening day, I marched right over to our brand new hardware store and could not find the clamp for the window. I even got help without having to hunt someone down. The staff saw me looking and asked :may I help you?". WOW! is that a novelty or what! Who would have thought customer service in a store. Unfortunately, the clamps had not come in yet, so the manager was called over, and he said he would order them ASAP. He let me know what day to come back for them, and also let me know he would order 4 different styles to choose from. When I went back to pick up the window clamps, they thanked me for coming back. They never once acted like I was inconveniencing them. So finally after several trips we have our window clamps. I just got to remember to bring them into the house and actually use them now.

P.S. I also like the fact I can take my hardware receipt to my favorite coffee stand and they give me a discount.