I wish we still had non-mega #hardware stores around here but if we do, I am unaware of them. ☹️
A quasi-related story for you: decades ago, our first (IIRC) big box hardware store dropped down into #Edmonton (on St Albert Trail). It was called Eagle Hardware.
Now I don't know the *actual* reason they failed so quickly, but I can tell you that it was blatantly obvious they'd done zero research on Canadian, and also specifically Albertan, product requirements.
Zero #Robertson screws or screwbits. 😳
At least one HUGE aisle full of #rat traps. 🙄
Both these points remain hilarious to me.
The staff were, however, polite and *attempted* to be helpful, which is not always the default today in other big box stores.
#Canada
#Alberta
#abhistory
#yeg
#RatPatrol
#RatFree
#KeepAlbertaRatFree
Another Friday just flyin by (like the Willys Jeeps in this intro) and for some reason, I’ve got TV instrumental themes on the brain, like this one which is better than the show was, from my recollection. Just be glad it’s not “Barnaby Jones.”
#MusicOfMastodon
#RatPatrol
#ImAGoober
Het is zaterdag 21 oktober. Rat Patrol treedt op in de kelderbar van Vera. De punk/harcore-band uit Groningen, Hoogezand en Enschede is opgericht in 1988, het jaar van de EK-winst en drie maal goud van Yvonne van Gennip in Calgary, én het jaar waarin de maximumsnelheid op de Nederlandse snelwegen verhoogd werd van 100 naar 120 kilometer per uur. Lang geleden dus. Voor het eerst in de lange historie van Rat Patrol treedt de band op in de kelderbar en dat mag je al bijzonder noemen. Wordt het een optreden op hoge snelheid, met veel gouden momenten?
Likely Jan Lukas
Dan
Brian Jopek
Alexander van der Meer
barely here
Dan Leppold