I hit the new digs hard this morning with my shop vac and the drywall filter, then with a stand up. I was about halfway done when the Hoover carpet shampooer started acting up. So, while the Wife painted, I drove practically across the street to the Lowes on Battleground and rented one.
The thing I like about the Hoover is it picks up damn near all the water it lays down. I used it recently to clean up a water leak at Rubenesque when the bottom rusted out of the water heater.
The Rug Doctor piece of shit, at $30 per day plus another $10 for detergent, puts it down, but never picks it up. I fired up the trusty Hoover and remedied the sit.
The Wife is toast. You don’t get over the flu all at once. I’m hurt pretty bad, but good to go.
Since we’re right across from the Bojangles, we been slamming some chicken biscuits. We tried the fish sandwich this afternoon. Not bad. About what you’d expect from McD’s or BK, but very moist and maybe a little better.
I probably don’t need to tell you cause you were no doubt there, but Lowes was simply mobbed all day. And people use the first warm day to take off all their clothes. Get some sun first, people. Jeepers, I have no shame, but I at least think of others.
BTW, don’t you dare pay those prices at Lowes or HD for landscaping stones. Get thee to the hardware store way out E. Wendover near where it hooks up with the new I-85. They have acres of inexpensive stone and a fat bulldog in the store.
19:30: Big news. The Wife says the 4,000 sq ft plus-size store on 17 at Murrell’s Inlet is also going retail/consignment. This woman is for real, having attended university for fashion design. She buys many of the same lines and we had not heard anything until now. This may be the model. Time will tell.
The husband of the owner of Mimi’s on State Street dropped by Linnea’s, recently. They’re ready to retire and closed the GSO location, giving over mgmt of their Roanoke, VA stores to their daughter. These are very classy people and cannot be replaced. For a generation, Carolyn at Mimi’s served Greensboro well.
My very recent experience with a Rug Doctor was most disappointing. It was a soggy, nasty mess. I ended up having to hire someone to clean it all up.
They really ought to warn people.
Sorry, I would have loaned you my Hoover which I got for free when someone else tossed it out. Seems it sucked so good it stopped itself up but after a good cleaning it works like new.
Fec wrote: “BTW, don’t you dare pay those prices at Lowes or HD for landscaping stones. Get thee to the hardware store way out E. Wendover near where it hooks up with the new I-85. They have acres of inexpensive stone and a fat bulldog in the store.”
That’s Phil Bryant’s Shop Rite True Value Hardware store– known him for 30+ years. Great guy and he owns the golf course on Hicone Road. When my son was a newborn baby and I had no money, Phil’s daddy, Calvin, ran a store on the corner of Wendover and English where the Autozone now stands. Even though I had nothing in the world, Calvin would let me take home groceries (bread, milk, baby formula but not beer– no beer on credit in Calvin’s store) and pay him when I got my next paycheck. Had it not been for Calvin my son might not be going on 31 today. I admired Calvin and think highly of Phil who inherited his daddy’s best traits.
Back when Calvin and my daddy were young men in their 20s they used to drink a bit of whiskey together in Gibsonville and at the race track in Altamahaw but both pretty much gave up drinking when Phil and I were little tykes. Calvin died a tragic death in a construction accident.
Those block are made at Goria Concrete which is almost across the street from the hardware store on Buchannan Church Road. I was plant supervisor there when I was in my mid twenties. We used to make 8-12 thousand blocks a day and stack them on to pallets by hand usually wearing out 2 pairs of leather work gloves per day, per person. Now everything is automated and I wouldn’t even know how to turn the machines on. I lost the end of one of my fingers making those blocks thanks to a stupid co-worker. Goria used to sell direct to the public but the contracts with Lowes and Home Depot stipulated that Goria could only wholesale. I promise the hardware store has the best year ’round deals in town on those block.
The Gorias have sold the block company and retired but I still talk with them from time to time.
Great comment. Lowe’s and HD want nearly $4 for 16″ square concrete pavers. I bought mine at Byant’s for less than half that price. If we ever get our shit together, the Wife and I are going over to pick out a pallet of stone and have it delivered.
Fec: my apologies. I thought this thread was some gynecological man talk. After I read it, I found you fell into the same trap i did renting one of those MFrs from Piggly Wiggly in Canker on the Rectum of the World and Still Devolving New Bern NC.
also….your wife has her shit together. She doesn’t need you gettng anything but the foot lotion. Cut the we stuff.
I went to school with the Bryant boys. They also own the golf course on Hicone Rd. Hard working fellahs. The shopping center sprung up from where their dad used to park his equipment in the 70’s.
RE the Wife, usually you’re right, but right now she’s so exhausted that she’s gone metamorphic and no longer comprehends English. We grunt and gesture to communicate basic needs.
Beelzebubba,
Keep leaving hints like that last one and I’ll figure out I know you.
Bill: randy and I sat near each other in every class because his last name started with a B, mine with an A.
Thank you for sharing your experience when using Rug Doctor and I’m sorry to hear it didn’t go as expected. However, your experience with renting a Rug Doctor is not the norm. Often times renters break the machines or they are seriously worn and return them without saying anything. This leaves good people with soggy carpets. You can always return a damaged rental for a new one. You will likely have a more positive experience.
Thanks for responding. My machine had 70 hours on it and appeared to be working properly. In your defense, the pile was extremely short and the beater bar scrubbed the carpet sufficiently. I simply pulled used the Hoover with no working brushes to pull the water up. No harm done.