Hardware Stores...off topic? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 7:07 PM Yes and no, as you will see. I am sharing my grief at discovering that my local hardware store is going out of business. Old fashioned Hardware stores are sooo cool! Just like the amazing variety of cacti at the Huntington Botanical gardens makes one marvel at creation's seemingly limitless inventiveness, a fully stocked hardware store is a treasure trove for man's tireless productivity of cryptic objects. I mean the brush section alone! And why are they dissappearing? For the same reason that makes Tiki Bars not feasable anymore: There are just too many damn people in this world, which has turned all commercial efforts towards MASS CONSUMPTION, mass recreation, mass marketing, mass everything, where the only rule is to make it BIGGER but CHEAPER. There is no time and money for individual care or product. At places like HOME DEPOT young minimum wage earners that know more about Eminem than the store's stock try to avoid eye contact, and one has no inspiration to explore the vast walls of packaging oneself. But they put the regular Hardware store out of business... Oh well, thanks for listening to my rant..and now, a Mai Tai.

Yes and no, as you will see. I am sharing my grief at discovering that my local hardware store is going out of business. Old fashioned Hardware stores are sooo cool!

Just like the amazing variety of cacti at the Huntington Botanical gardens makes one marvel at creation's seemingly limitless inventiveness, a fully stocked hardware store is a treasure trove for man's tireless productivity of cryptic objects. I mean the brush section alone!

And why are they dissappearing? For the same reason that makes Tiki Bars not feasable anymore: There are just too many damn people in this world, which has turned all commercial efforts towards MASS CONSUMPTION, mass recreation, mass marketing, mass everything, where the only rule is to make it BIGGER but CHEAPER. There is no time and money for individual care or product.
At places like HOME DEPOT young minimum wage earners that know more about Eminem than the store's stock try to avoid eye contact, and one has no inspiration to explore the vast walls of packaging oneself. But they put the regular Hardware store out of business...

Oh well, thanks for listening to my rant..and now, a Mai Tai.

Post #4710 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 7:07 PM