OT: Morons at Lowe's, train wreck on delivery Options

[stepuptotheMike]

So.... I purchased a new compressor.... 80 Gal... big mofo. Oh and a new dishwasher to keep the wife happy.

They go to deliver it this morning. I spent all day yesterday cleaning out the 2 914 garage... cleaning, picking up tools, etc in anticipation of my new toy.

So the big morning arrives. I move both of our daily drivers out onto the street. I park my 73 in the driveway off to the side. completely clear access all the way to the rear of the garage. Big ass lowe's truck shows up. They decide to offload the compressor first. This is where the train start coming off the tracks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

This big ass box, with a pallet at the bottom. They have it on a pallet jack and the bigger of the two start spinning it around trying to get it on the lift. One hand on the pallet jack, and one hand gingerly on the big ass metal thing in the box. The other little guy was off taking care of his phone that was ringing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) The little guy comes back and starts lowering the lift.... jerking it all the way. Thought the thing was going to come tumbling off right there.

They get it to the ground. Now, remember all of those cars that I moved out of the driveway? Did they even think of parking the truck in the driveway? Nope. Compressor in the street. They then remove the pallet jack and I'm kind of scratching my head. Now you have to realize that this gigantic box has the following plastered in big letters all around it..... "WARNING: TOP HEAVY". Along with a nice host of pictures that indicated that you should not use a hand truck. So what do they grab? Yup... here comes the hand truck. They throw it under, pull out the straps (gotta remember safety here kids) and strap the thing up. Now in our neighborhood, we have what I call roll-over curbs. Not the old school vertical curbs. I watch with my arms crossed as they tip this thing back and exclaim..... "Damn this thing is top heavy" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) Now I would have taken this as a clue to stop and eval the situation. Nope. They tip it again and struggle to heft it over the roll-over curb. So they get it over the curb and into the grass. Then they try and do a little turn to get it onto the concrete driveway (hmm...might roll a little bit better there). Struggle... turn... struggle...turn.... fall....crash. Onto the concrete it goes. Delivery person #1 laying on their back saying.... "I can't believe that just happened". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) Hell I saw that happening before the thing was even off the truck.

Proud of myself..... I didn't yell. Didn't curse. All I said was..... "and Back on the truck it goes."

Maybe manufactures should start putting those little recording boxes inside of the carton that just keeps saying..... Hey moron, don't use a hand truck, this thing is really top heavy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

We'll see how they do on round two.

Mike