...or "The Home Despot," as we call it here. We stopped in at their nearby Emeryville branch for parts to address a kitchen plumbing crisis and were subjected to the characteristic snarling indifference that passes for customer service in this establishment, waiting patiently as a Despotoid spent ten minutes not helping another customer (who wouldn't take the hint) before he had time to spend two minutes not helping us, insisting that a part we needed didn't exist, that if it did exist, and wasn't on display, it was not somewhere in inventory. He left it at that, because there were several other people waiting not to be helped.

I'd settle for early holiday displays.

cordially,