The woman and I went out furniture shopping Saturday and had an interesting interaction while buying some furniture.
The young woman behind the counter taking down my address for delivery actually aked a very pointed question:
Her: “Is it a Zero-dash address?”
Me: Err, yes. Well, actually I believe it’s supposed to be an ‘oh’ that stands for Ottawa County because there’s some confusion about…
Her: Oh yeah, I know but the system won’t let me put an O there, so I just use zero. My parents live at <Justin’s address-38> on the same road.
Me: Cool.
Driving home the woman noted that the address of the young woman’s parents were our next-door neighbors.
The same neighbor that came over and helped me clear my driveway of snow.
Sunday I headed back because I had a 15% off coupon for Art Van and was informed at the time of purchase that it was fine that I didn’t have it with me — they’d refund me the money if I brought it in the next day. Super cool.
The same young woman was there. A different clerk handled my transaction with them but I was able to bring up the subject with the orignal clerk again. When I told her that her dad helped me clear my driveway she said something along the lines of “Oh, you’re that guy. Yeah, my dad said he saw a young man trying to clear his driveway with just a shovel and thought, ‘This can’t end well.’ so he came over.”
So, I figure I’ve got the rep as the idiot neighbor at this point.
Oh, and the 2nd clerk was the original clerk’s sister. So now the whole family knows who the idiot neighbor is.
I really need to get a snow-blower. I don’t know how much longer my brothers are going to be willing to snag my dad’s plow truck and do my driveway out of boredom.
Should be able to pickup a good deal on them anytime now. They’ll be clearing out this years inventory if they haven’t already. I only have 1 suggestion for you … get a snowblower with a “differential” so that the wheels can turn at different speeds. Most of the low-end ones don’t come with it. On those, you only have the option of power to one wheel (it’s always trying to turn and just slips on everything) or lock both wheels together (goes fine, but you can’t turn for crap). I really regret not getting that single feature as I have to manhandle the thing during turns. That makes it pretty much unusable by the significant other due to her smaller muscular build. It makes a lot more work for me as well.
I can’t speak for Patrick, but I plan on being bored until at least May 28, 2008. :)
Oh, and winter is over. It’s freakin’ beautiful out.