…I need a favor. We picked up some wooden letters in the craft department of our local Wal-Mart back in October. We got the letters to spell out B-A-B-Y and put them up in the nursery for our (at the time) gender-unknown baby. After the baby was born, we decided to get the letters to spell out her name (Shayla) instead.
Well, the B’s were no longer useful, but we could recycle the A and the Y, so I headed back to Wal-Mart to pick up the others. Well, I was able to buy most of them (H-A-L, coincidentally) but they didn’t have an S. They didn’t have an S in November, and that hook remains empty to this day. Repeated requests, ranging from “I humbly beseech thee, please reorder your S’s”, to “Still no fricking S’s?? What the hell is with you people?!” seem to have fallen on deaf ears. Trips to three other Wal-Marts have proven fruitless. Here’s where you come in.
If you happen to be in your local Wal-Mart, can I get you to take a peek in the craft department and see if they have an S (they’ll be unpainted in the store) in this font, please? It’s hard to tell from the pic, but they’re 7" high. I’ll happily reimburse you and take care of shipping and all that. I’d just love to get this project done before it turns into a college graduation present for my daughter.
Hal, if Wal-Marts and other shoppers fail you I can try and make the letter out of Pine if you provide the Pattern of the S.
I have a router bit that should fairly match the pattern and the Band saw and Scroll saw required to make the S.
It would be an interesting challenge. Let me know.
I can’t help, but can someone tell me why these joints don’t order more of the more popular letters? Oh…yeah…there’s always a fucking Q. But S? Not a chance. The S is a very popular letter. they should order 5 times as many.
I work at a store that sells little ones with animals on them. We’re always out of “A.” I keep telling the buyer to order five times as many as she thinks she needs, but no to avail.
I wonder if they can. It might be one of those deals where they have to order a whole package of various letters. That’s savings they can pass on to you.
Hell… I’m not doing anything right now and I haven’t been to WalMart in over a year. I’ll go check it out right now. I’ll come back in about an hour and post my results…
I’m sure it’s the same reason they’re always out of size medium T-shirts: people are idiots.
I attempted to buy a medium T-shirt one time from a local dance venue. They were out. I tried a few weeks later. They were out. I asked when they might be getting another batch.
“Oh, we just got a batch. We probably won’t get more for a while, because the mediums sell so quickly.”
Yes. You heard that right. Because they sell so quickly, they wouldn’t be ordering more. Can’t have that merchandise just flying off the shelves, now. They’d look so plain.
