Back at it again

Posted by Alicia on Friday, June 18, 2010

Yesterday we were sent on a bit of a wild goose chase. We were asked to purchase a kneeling board from Home Depot. As I don’t drive much around here, it’s kind of hard to get my bearings.  I am familiar with routes we’ve taken to and from work, as well as paths that I’ve walked…other then that, it’s kind of an adventure trying to get anywhere.


The Home Depot I am familiar with is on Chef Mentuer, however, they did not have what we needed. (This is Amber writing now.) They sent us to their larger store in New Orleans east, which was on Bullet Street.  Our GPS could not find the address and we were driving around for a while trying to find it ourselves.  Then Alicia called her friend to get better directions.  He gave us step-by-step directions to get to Bullet Street. After driving about 15 minutes, we still could not find the street.  He had given us very clear directions on what we would see on the way. After driving a while, we started to see the landmarks that Duncan (not his real name) told us about, but we did not see Bullet Street anywhere.  We had gone as far as we thought we should and the last street we had passed was Bullard, and as the accent is so heavy in the south, we figured maybe that was what they were referring to.  Alicia then called her friend once more and asked how to spell the street name.  He pronounced it Bullet but spelled it B-U-L-L-A-R-D.  At first, we were quit shocked as to how we were to ever find Bullet if it didn’t actually exist.  But, this, too, is the New Orleans way.  After a bit of searching, we finally found Home Depot and they didn’t have what we needed.  Though the day sounded unsuccessful, we ended up finding what we needed elsewhere, as well as returning to the job site to prep the porch banister.



It's Friday morning now and we're at it again. We’re getting a bit of a late start but in motion none the less. More soon.

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