Blog 5

A group of 3 employees talking about work. A customer sheepishly asks for help, we help but fuck with him as a group.

A family of middleeastern descent ask an associate a question. he answers, but the man does not respond and instead turns to his family and they begin speaking arabic to one another huddled in a circle. After this occurs a few times the associate begins to interject, and from outside the circles begins to nod and say "Yup, it will do that," and "uh huh" as though he can understand.

A mexican man walks past me three times looking at the ceiling as though it porovides an answer to one of lifes puzzling questions. He moves at a feverish pace and passes by a fourth time. he stops and stares at me finally asking "Choo peak-e pani?" I shake my head and say "No" and he moves on continuing his search.

While talking with a friend about work, he confesses to me that he once had to take a shit while traveling on route 9. He asked another one of our friends where the cleanest bathrooms were that he could stop and use the restroom. My friend tells him that Lowe's has the cleanest bathrooms. After he stops in to use the bathroom, he sits down in a stall and begins to describe in vivid detail; the number of murals and writings in sharpie on the bathroom stall. He describes a series of pictures that he doesnt understand, while I remember them vividly and laugh at each one, and then have to explain to him their meaning.

150 foot rolls of 15 foot carpeting are extremely heavy. The forklift has a special tool that is used to move the heavy roll and move it into the top stock, while watching an associate try to manuever it, I tell him to tilt the forks down to straighten the "carpet dick" and he begins laughing and explaining how he's never heard it called that before. "Really?" I ask "Every Flooring associate calls it that. "You've got to be rough with it while still retaining a bit of gentleness"