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Bingo!

Lazorquick did our Calenders this year KV takes pictures of himself and friends and makes them up for x mas gifts.

They put Ash Wends. on a Thursday! I called the Church to ask when did this change occur and then relized it was Lazorquick boo boo. The owner is Catholic and she even missed it I am going to bring it up next year to see if I can get a discount.

...go to your local, mom-and-pop hardware store. If there are any left in your locale.

As often as possible, we shop at our local hardware store - the oldest still in operation in our state and run by decendents of the original owners, the Porters. It was opened in 1889 and they have maintained the interior and exterior. Inside, the ceiling height is 20 feet plus, the ceiling is squares of pressed tin and the side walls are reached by tall, rolling ladders. They have everything you can think of from cast iron skillets, large wash tubs, to huge spools of grass rope. When my teenaged children know I'm going to Porter's, they insist on joining me to revel in the experience.

That is simply not true. I've had bad service in small "mom and pop" shops and in larger stores and vica versa. There is no rule that you will get better service in a small store or terrible service in a large chain. Chances are, yes, the large chain will have more employees who could give a flip and your assurance of service is not always known due to the anonymity of the environment, but I can think of one store in my area that sells scrapbook supplies(no two stores of that persuasion) who have LOST business due to how poorly they were managed or the employees who worked there. I can think of one other store(not those other two) who changed managment to improve things and this is just among small, privately owned hobby shops in my area so very small cross section! I know I get more livid when I walk out of the mom and pop shop with little or no help because they are SPECIALIZING in certain types of items or services--if they don't know or don't care to answer, I can assure you I will never walk in that store again, where the larger shops there is this 'forgiveness factor' because you don't expect every employee there to be a specialist in the lumber or masonry dept.