ninme

Some of you might remember back in May I had a wee vent about our local hardware store. Ending (sarcastically) with,

So yeah, it would be a real shame if this place closed.

Well, they’re closing. They’ll be gone by the end of the month. So now I’m in possession of my very own $16 bolt cutter, mine for just $8. No returns.

We bought a dresser, you see. And we went to a little store called Rejuvenation, which is like Restoration Hardware but cheaper and without the weaponised viral yuppiness, and bought pretty glass handles. And we need something to cut the ends off the screws of the handles so they don’t stick into the drawer snagging all the sweaters. So I thought I’d go down and ask about a bolt cutter, since the Dremel we were using last night isn’t ideal, and it was the last one, so I got it. Problem is I’m not sure I know how to use it. You’d think, hey it’s easy, works just like scissors. But it doesn’t open really wide unless you open the arms all the way into an angle that makes it hard to close again defeating the purpose of having a bolt cutter. Which you’d think wouldn’t be the case. So maybe I’m doing something wrong. Or maybe I’m just a weakling.

Anyway, you’d think someone as sentimental and old-timey as me would be really torn up by this. But there’s good small businesses that tear me up inside when they close, and there’s crappy small businesses that don’t. This is one of the latter.