Another thing about Home Depot is if you need advice along with your purchase better go to Ace or True Value. The pimply faced 19 year old at Home Depot does not have the answers.
I certainly agree about K-Mart. The one here in Kingman AZ looks as if they have not done any maintenance in quite some time.
Homo Depot is a major cruising area for queers in this part of the country. No thanks. And yes, the workers are clueless.
There’s an Ace store next to my wife’s office; a couple of weeks ago I needed a fitting and gave her a note to take over there.
What I wanted was a 1/4” NPT close nipple and that was all I wrote down.
When she got home from work she gave me the bag and I took out a 3” long nipple.
I told her it wasn’t close enough and drew a sketch on paper while showing her the difference.
The next day I noticed that she had left the wrong nipple at home so I figured I’d just wait another day, but no, when she got home she proudly showed me a small plastic pouch with the correct item that was clearly labeled 1/4” (npt)close nipple; she had gone back over, couldn’t find the salesman and just browsed the rack until she spotted the match to the sketch.
On an earlier occasion at the same store she picked up a package of small springs after I told the guy on the phone I needed the part number for a pair of springs about 2” long and the diameter of a pencil eraser.
I still have the springs in the garage, they are the size of a pencil lead.
Oh, well.