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And for whatever it’s worth, in all my 55 years I’ve never heard anyone call a light bulb a “lamp” until now. A lamp is what you screw a light bulb into.
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You don’t hang with too many theater people. To them, a lamp is the fragile glass thing that emits light and is installed in a fixture or more commonly, an instrument. Bulbs go in the garden.
No, that’s Gromit.
Of course I do, to them. I’m a woman.
I even get other customers trying to strike up home improvement conversations and wanting to come to my house and “help” me.
Quite frankly, I have a feeling you’re making a lot of this up.
It was a deliberate typo…I love the word personally 
Like as the most boring lie ever? No.
This thread illustrates why Big Box store employees are barely above the intellectual intelligence of avocados.
See Post 115.
Why would you ever assume that someone working at a big box store was an expert? They are unskilled labor. Do you think they even have to pass a test to work there?
If you are an expert on these things, you don’t work at these stores.
I’ll freely admit I’ve never head of using “lamps” to mean bulbs either. A floor lamp is a fixture. That is how pretty much everyone uses those words. If the OP couldn’t figure out that using the word lamp was causing confusion, and refused to attempt to communicate more effectively, he doesn’t have any right to be condescending.
And being rude to try and get people to leave you alone is a shitty practice, and is much less effective than saying “Thanks, but I don’t need any help.” Get the right type of person, and they’ll be rude back. Or, if they can’t be rude without getting in trouble, they can become quite passive aggressive.
I routinely have frustrating moments at hardware or electronics stores, which I tend to chalk up to being a woman and people (typically middle-aged men or older) assuming I don’t know anything. I used to work in building maintenance and at a hardware store, and encountered it with co-workers, residents, and customers, then just as frequently as a customer when I’m shopping. It’s this delightfully condescending way of speaking that I don’t hear when these same guys are talking to my husband. It’s extra fun when employees insist on trying to help me after I said I don’t need help, or when I actually do need help but they’ll only talk to my husband. He’s a smart guy, but he’s not the handy one here.
For a recent encounter, unrelated to being condescended to, we were browsing around to kill time and see what that chain’s selection was like. When we were in the one section we might have actually had questions about, nobody could be found. Once we moved on to look at the goods along the back wall we suddenly couldn’t get this one employee to leave us alone!
Do you need help?
No, we’re just looking. Thanks!
Ok, let me know if you need anything.
A few minutes later…
How are you guys doing? Have any questions?
Nope, still just looking. Thanks.
Ok, just let me know!
Maybe a few minutes later…
How’s it going? Need help?
No. Thanks.
Ok. Well, feel free to take things out of the packaging to look closer. It’s fine!
We left quickly after that, with my husband feeling strongly that they were constantly checking on us to remind us that we were being watched, to ward off theft. He’s probably right, and we’re likely never going back.
Loctite is kept in the paint department because adhesives and tapes are in the paint department. However, some things are kept in multiple places so it’s very likely that Loctite is also kept in hardware. Hardwood floor cleaner is found in the cleaning department but, go figure, it’s also kept with the hardwood floors. They don’t go out of their way to make things difficult.