ace hardware store

[trottman]

so i take the skimmer body of my new euro reef skimmer to ace hardware to buy the parts needed to make the gate valve mod. Immediatly after i walk in the door i am apporached by an employee and asked to follow her to the back of the store. once we get back to the storage part of the building, i am questioned by the manager and an employee about mary j wanna! they didnt even ask me what i was doing, they just started telling my that weed is against the law and that they were going to have to call the police about my "drug paraphanaliea".

they thought that my skimmer was a BONG!!! but then once i showed them the euro reef sticker and showed them the online web site they understood and appologiezed. they even gave me 30% off of the plumbing parts i needed due to the inconveniance they caused me!!!


i told them to hassel me every time i come in so that i could get 30% off... but they did not find that as funny as i did



--moral of the story: if you want a discount at ace hardware bring your skimmer body in and ask for PVC parts

 

[latazyo]

you are incredibly cool headed if that experience didnt **** you off

good luck on the mod, btw

 

[JxMetal]

hahah, thats the funniest thing I've heard in a while.

What was wrong with the CSS?

Selling it?

 

[trottman]

well, all the overtime spent at chad's allowed me to upgrade

if anyone is interested i may sell my css 125

 

[DrBDC]

Is Ace Hardware carrying gate valves now? Last time I checked they only had ball valves and stop waste gates which are similar but not the same. I have some 1" gate valves I could sell if you need any.

 

[trottman]

i need 1 and 1/4. and yes the one by my house has gate valve

 

[bigmayreefer]

how much for the ss125? im interested

 

[chadfarmer]

what euro-reef did you get trottman?


do you work tommorrow?

 

[trottman]

i work every sat.

i got the es 5-3-B

the css 125 lets say $80 with shipping (that is negotiable)

 

[chadfarmer]

is that from reeferwannabe

80.00 is a good price for the skimmer (how do you like the ER compaired to the coralife)

 

[trottman]

yes from wannabe.

it is a better than the css125 in the fact that it makes the same ammount of skimmate, except that the ER's is like dry blobs of brown goo where as the css125 made brown water.

 

[zt444a]

Matt,

I would have been entirely too upset. You should have told them no that you would not follow them, and then had one of the local lawyers sue then if they tried to unlawfully detain you.

Did you get the parts you needed for your bong? Err gate valve?

:smokin: :smokin: :smokin:

 

[fkdenton]

trottman, I have heard about the euro reefs performance as a skimmer, but how is the performance as a bong?

 

[stlouisguy]

I think I would have played along as the stoner dude until the police came, then showed them the skimmer.

Thanks for the laugh

 

[akrimmel]

youth was on your side at the time, because the cops would have had to come after they approched with some B/S like that.

 

[akrimmel]

especially with me having very noticeable tatoos from being in the army i while they would have "attempted" to show me where the special customer room is, wife would have had to come and bail me out.

 

[chadfarmer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7746820#post7746820 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by akrimmel
especially with me having very noticeable tatoos from being in the army i while they would have "attempted" to show me where the special customer room is, wife would have had to come and bail me out.

dont you mean warden would come and bail me out

 

[akrimmel]

yeah my get out of jail free card bunghole.

 

[Amy83820]

Were you wearing your pot leaf t-shirt in public again? I thought Steve had a talk with you about that.

 

[Divedog]

Matt, you are right. That is funny as hell. The miss adventures of trottman.

Also, thanks for the help at GWA yesterday.