Currently stuck in this "Lucy" phase that I can't seem to get out of, I have one comical disaster after another. Comical only if you aren't me. Today it was my big DIY project. I was confidant when the morning started. I was gonna do this thing! This thing being putting a small flat HD TV in the newly constructed backroom. Simple right? I've been shopping for said TV for a couple of weeks now but being cheap, I was waiting for a deal. I had a Walmart budget in mind but taking a box off the shelf with no technical advice seemed intimidating. I found myself back at Best Buy where I could at least get some "how to" info. I stood around the TV section for a good 30 minutes and could not get anyone to help me. I felt like "Pretty Woman" as I had the means to purchase, but apparently didn't look like I was a serious consumer. I should have worn better shoes. Discouraged, I left and found myself at Ultimate Electronics. They are pricey but I remembered good service there with the last TV stand purchase. I walked in the door a beaten woman but was in luck cause these guys work on commission. Fourteen footsteps in, my salesman saw me coming. His name was Nathan, and I liked him immediately.
"I just want to buy a TV" I said. "Then I'm going to help you do that" was Nathan's reply. Relief. I gave him the size and the budget, which he ignored. He took me through the selection and gave his best advice. He sold me on the Toshiba 26" that was $1,100 a few weeks ago but today was half price. Sigh.... twice my budget. I was sold. I had to ask Nathan all of the nitty gritty details as to how to hook up the thing. He grasped my vulnerability and took me through it step by simple step. He even wrote down on a scrap of paper off the top of his head which cable box to get so that Cox doesn't try to talk me into something I don't need. Nathan gave me a bottle of water and a cookie while he took my money, loaded my truck and sent me on my way.
Next task was to find the shelves I envisioned my TV on, which I did without incident. I am encouraged and excited with my purchases and hurry home to put it all together. HA. The disassembled shelves became my first impossible project requiring power tools and a studfinder to anchor them. Once built and installed I felt a certain satisfaction. That is until I noticed the leftover pile of hardware in the middle of the floor. I guessed they gave me extra parts??
And now for the TV. I take it out of it's box in all of it's glory. Nathan has assured me that it was child's play to get this thing up and running. His children must be geniuses. It's still in pieces on the floor.
Any minute I expect Ricky to walk through the door and say, "Lucy, you have some splain'in to do".
Sigh..................
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