Got tired of fooling with using small wire cutters to cut cable seals, to I went to Lowes to get a steel cable cutter.
They do not carry the specialty cable cutters that are actually designed to cut steel cable. Home Depot does, I know, but apparently not Lowes.
While I was sitting at customer service and waiting for a tool guy to come verify they didn't have real cable cutters, I overheard a very confused, very old woman in a lane near me arguing about the price of a poinsettia plant. She apparently hadn't been able to find the price on the plant, and the shelf pricing had confused her. She didn't say she couldn't afford it, not was she being mean or nasty about it, so I said "Merry Xmas" and bought it for her.
Then I went back into the store with the tool guy and ended up buying a small pair of bolt cutters, which will work better than three-inch wire cutters for cable seals, even if I end up having to cut the body/barrel of the seals as opposed to the cables.
So I gave myself two things today. A little warm fuzziness, doing something nice for a complete stranger, and getting myself a better tool to do my job.
Got tired of fooling with using small wire cutters to cut cable seals, to I went to Lowes to get a steel cable cutter.
They do not carry the specialty cable cutters that are actually designed to cut steel cable. Home Depot does, I know, but apparently not Lowes.
While I was sitting at customer service and waiting for a tool guy to come verify they didn't have real cable cutters, I overheard a very confused, very old woman in a lane near me arguing about the price of a poinsettia plant. She apparently hadn't been able to find the price on the plant, and the shelf pricing had confused her. She didn't say she couldn't afford it, not was she being mean or nasty about it, so I said "Merry Xmas" and bought it for her.
Then I went back into the store with the tool guy and ended up buying a small pair of bolt cutters, which will work better than three-inch wire cutters for cable seals, even if I end up having to cut the body/barrel of the seals as opposed to the cables.
So I gave myself two things today. A little warm fuzziness, doing something nice for a complete stranger, and getting myself a better tool to do my job.