Nut Checker

      This weekend my husband was in need of a nut so he sent my daughter and I off to Lowes to find some.  I had the old nut in hand and marched myself purposefully into the store heading straight for where they store such things.  Somehow some things that are perfectly normal can sound so wrong when you are trying to explain it to someone else.  That is when the giggles take over…especially if you explain yourself with a straight face in the first place.

      Who would have thought I would have reached my hand into the first box of nuts and found exactly the size I needed?  Seriously, I did though!!  It surely looked like the old nut, a perfect match by my eye.  About that time one of those ever helpful Lowe’s employees sauntered over and asked if I needed any assistance.   I promptly explained that my husband needed a new set of nuts and wondered if the one I found looked about right.  He looked at me and burst out laughing and then I realized exactly what I said.  Amid uproarious giggles that became quite contagious he asked me if I had checked it out with the nut checker.  Excuse me? Lowe’s has a nut checker, a physical place you can go to check your nuts?  Laughing all the way he led me to a wall covered with screws and took the nut I brought with me and picked a protruding bolt and proceeded to screw it on.  Then he screwed on one of the new nuts.  While I stood in open mouthed amazement he congratulated me on finding an exact match.

       I guess you never know where you will find a giggle lurking and I happened to find one at the nut checker wall at Lowe’s.  I left the store feeling as if I had made a life defining discovery and fulfilled with the wonder of obtaining knowledge I didn’t previously have.  Another post in the record books for NaBloPoMo and the Ultimate Blogging Challenge!  

We Built It!!

    Today I took the kids to something really cool and I simply had to share!!  While at Lowe’s yesterday picking up a huge bottle of bug killer my daughter and I came across a cool workshop for kids back by the ladies toilet.  We simply HAD TO PEE  and rushed to the back of the store.  Right down from the bathrooms were long tables set up and several kids and parents congregating around.   I simply could not resist finding out what was going on!!  They were having a “Build to Grown Clinic” for kids to build a Pizza Planet Delivery Truck as seen in the Disney Pixar movie “Toy Story”. 

      How totally cool!!  The only problem was that my son happened to be at the house with my husband.  The lady asked me if my daughter would like to participate and I figured my son would be upset if he didn’t get to build a truck too.  The best news was that she said we could come back the next day because they were holding the workshop then too.  Then I thought to ask the all-important question…how much does this little adventure cost?  Even more great news…the workshop was free and included all materials!  How could I not take my kids for this event?  It was free and it looked like fun plus they would have a cool toy to take home for their efforts.

     This afternoon we headed back to Lowe’s and made a beeline back to the area where the workshop was being held.  Lowe’s is a big store and my kids literally raced to the back of the store like the hounds of hell were after them.  I refused to run…after all, I am a mature adult most of the time so I kept all of us at a brisk walk.  Each kid received a pre-packaged kit of all the pre-cut wood, nails, and decals they needed to complete the project.  They also got a free cloth apron and safety goggles to keep and they got to use cute little hammers.  It reminded me of something Santa’s elves would have.  Each kit had step-by-step instructions.  All the holes for the nails were pre-drilled and the project was pretty easy to assemble.

        It was a lot of fun.  While my daughter had no trouble assembling her truck, I got to help my son get his together.  When their trucks were completed they each received an iron on patch to put on their aprons and a certificate for their 
accomplishment.  How cool is that?  Evidently they hold these little workshops for kids twice a month so you can bet your last dollar the kids and I will be at the next workshop where the kids are looking forward to building a replica of Toy Story’s R.C.  It just goes to prove you don’t have to spend a dime to have fun and day 14 of the UltimateBlogging Challenge and NaBloPoMo is now in the record books!