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Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: on July 23, 2001, 02:25:52 PM
So, my friend and I went to buy some carpet for our dorm room in August.  It\'s a couple inches smaller than 10x20.  Office Depot has a deal on 10x10 carpets at $20 a pop.  But we wanted to go see if we could find a single piece of carpet for under $50.

First stop: Sonny\'s Carpet.

We were greeted by who I assume is Sonny\'s wife.  A lady in her 60\'s, she showed us the "remnants," none bigger than 7x8.  So we talked new carpet, cheapest was $0.44 SqFt!  (That\'s $88!)
We said we\'d come back later. . . we lied.

Second Stop thru Fourth Stop:

Just a bunch of places along the way that we thought might have carpet.  They didn\'t.

Fifth Stop: Cici\'s Pizza.

We were hungry, and a $4.00 pizza buffet is hard to turn down!

Sixth Stop: Swinford\'s Carpet (Swinford = swindel???)

Again we were meeted by the Mrs.  She got out a calculator first and told us that she couldn\'t go below $150.  She told us of Dalton\'s Carpet, and we left.

Seventh Stop: Dalton\'s Carpet.

Well, since it\'s named after Dalton, GA, the carpet capital of the world, we thought we would have to find something!  We actally started haggling with the salesman.  The best he could do was a remnant, 9x18 for $50 cash.  That\'s the best so far, but we\'d be happier with the two 10x10\'s over at Office Depot.  No sale.

Eighth Stop: Home.

I give up.  I\'m going with the Office Depot 2 10x10 deal.  I\'ll just make sure to avoid tripping over the seam.  At least I know it\'s the best deal around.

That\'s my story and I\'m stickin\' to it.
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: Knotter8 on July 23, 2001, 02:39:29 PM
A car pet ? A pet in a car ? LOL :laughing:
Sorry j/k  ;)
Yeah don\'t ever let yourself talk into a product
you don\'t really wanna buy or a price too high.
Make sure you keep your carpet clean so fewer
dust damages your PS2 !

Knotter8
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: on July 23, 2001, 02:42:30 PM
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Originally posted by Knotter8
A car pet ? A pet in a car ? LOL :laughing:
Sorry j/k  ;)
Yeah don\'t ever let yourself talk into a product
you don\'t really wanna buy or a price too high.
Make sure you keep your carpet clean so fewer
dust damages your PS2 !

Knotter8


Funny you mention that.  My dad was freaked that someone would steal my PS2, so we bought a safe to keep it in!  It\'s really large, big enough to have my 29" TV sit on top.  It\'s not really heavy duty or anything, but it\'s a great detterant!  And a conversation piece!
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: Knotter8 on July 23, 2001, 02:57:49 PM
PS2SAFE = SAFE to put in a PS2. :laughing:
Dang I\'ve hada few too many mushrooms
tonight !  :thepimp:
BTW did they actually try to steal your PS2,
burglars ?

Knotter8
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: on July 23, 2001, 03:00:14 PM
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Originally posted by Knotter8
PS2SAFE = SAFE to put in a PS2. :laughing:
Dang I\'ve hada few too many mushrooms
tonight !  :thepimp:
BTW did they actually try to steal your PS2,
burglars ?

Knotter8


No, my dad\'s just paranoid.  Probably because when we bought it they made us wait for an armed guard escort out of Circuit City to make sure nobody would bother us.
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: Coredweller on July 23, 2001, 03:26:46 PM
I don\'t have any comments about carpets or safes, but I did want to add this:

You\'re a prolific poster Trog.  That\'s all.  Heh heh, I bet you\'ll reply within 10 minutes...  Would that I could return to my college days and have time to post on an Internet forum all day... :laughing:
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: on July 23, 2001, 03:30:20 PM
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Originally posted by Coredweller
I don\'t have any comments about carpets or safes, but I did want to add this:

You\'re a prolific poster Trog.  That\'s all.  Heh heh, I bet you\'ll reply within 10 minutes...  Would that I could return to my college days and have time to post on an Internet forum all day... :laughing:


And here I am!  :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: I must admit I had to look up the word "prolific" to make sure it was a complement!  ;)  I assumed it was, with "pro" in it, but I had to make sure.

Thanks for the compliment.  I do enjoy every minute of my college days.  (I\'m not usually in front of my comp. 24/7, but right now it\'s summer and all of my friends are all home whilist I continue to study.)
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: videoholic on July 23, 2001, 05:29:33 PM
Go Gators.
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: on July 23, 2001, 05:31:35 PM
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Go Gators.


Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Snarl.

:mad:
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: Weltall on July 23, 2001, 11:12:30 PM
Go Hokies!
Title: My adventure with carpet.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 23, 2001, 11:43:03 PM
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Originally posted by Weltall
Go Hokies!


This is totally off topic and officaly a date late.
But happy birthday, Weltall.
;)