Rick and I went to Home Depot and of course I wanted to look at more things than were discussed previous to venturing to Home Depot. This is the WISE way to handle errands...hit all the errands you can on the way to your destination and hit even more on the way home if you need to.
It's the "circle of errands".
This drives Rick CRAZY. He wants to go for the ONE thing we came for and leave. I don't even understand for a second this line of thinking.
To solve this problem, we purchased the ONE item we needed and I told him I had to buy one more thing, so why doesn't he go to the car and wait. He was perfectly happy with this plan, so off he went and off I went.
What I was buying didn't have a price sticker on it and the Home Depot person had to go find it, so it took way longer than I every dreamed it would take. My plan was backfiring.
When I finally finished, I went outside and noticed Rick was not in the car, so I started looking around thinking he might have gone back into the store...or left me perhaps.
Nope....he was near the entrance of the store finishing up a conversation and walking back toward me and boy did he have an exciting night while I was inside waiting for a price check.
He went to the car and heard a howling husky (dog) in the bed of a truck parked directly in front of him. Rick got out of the car to see if he was friendly. The dog was friendly, so he started petting the dog.
This is when a scuffle started near the entrance to the store. Rick watched 3 guys wrestling and Rick couldn't really tell who was winning or losing. He decided he should go over and see what's up, it's what anybody would do....well, all except the Home Depot employee that just came out of the exit to smoke.
When Rick got closer to the scuffle, he sensed there was a "bad" guy in the mix but didn't know which one. It was a case of the
"3 Stooges". Thankfully, one of the guys said, "let me go", so he at least knew which one was the bad guy.
This was all Rick needed to hear to feel he needed to get involved, so he jumped in to get the "bad" guy under control. Rick said the bad guy was obviously on drugs because he was flailing all over and some of the holds Rick was putting him didn't hurt him. In the scuffle, it came out that the 2 other guys were "loss prevention" employees from Home Depot, obviously not trained how to quickly detain a shoplifter.
Rick helped where he could, but the Home Depot guys had no idea who Rick was and didn't really want him involved.
Heck, Rick could have been one of the shoplifter's friends.
When they finally got him down on the ground, the Home depot guys were trying to put hand cuffs on him and they couldn't do it. Think '3 Stooges'. Rick took the cuffs and locked them on the guy's wrists. The home depot guys still didn't know who Rick was, so didn't know what to think...or do, although they were thankful.
After it was all under control, they all talked and Rick came back to the car.
Here is Rick's mash from his good deed for the day!
Wow, being a General Contractor can be dangerous :)
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