As part of the ongoing home repair/improvement project, there are still a few things we have to pick out. We’ve got the cabinets on order (should be delivered by the 2nd week of April), and we think we’ve figured out the counter tops, but we’re still working on the hardwood floors. In order to try and narrow that down, and match the cabinets we picked out, we headed for Home Depot. I had done a little pre-visit recon and at least knew where their displays were located and had a few things narrowed down.
Dina had already made the decision she was going to use one of the motorized carts if it was available. I dropped her off at the door and parked. When I made it inside she had already claimed the one scooter that was left. We got the armrests adjusted and with a quick survey of the controls she was moving. I made sure to try and give her plenty of room. It’s one thing for her to bump you with a push cart/basket (ask Mr. Glaze), but I really didn’t want to become Home Depot Road Kill and be run down in the aisle by a pregnant woman!
We went through several of the samples and picked out a few, then made the trek back to the cabinet display. She actually did pretty well steering her basket cart, although I was a bit concerned about one of the displays getting taken out in a tight turn! We tried to compare a few of the flooring samples to the sample door in the display that matched our cabinets. I finally ended up dismantling their display (with a sales associate sort of watching) and I just acted like I knew what I was doing.
I put the sample door down in the basket part of her cart and held up the flooring sample and counter top sample. As she leaned up to look at them, this loud, rather irritating, ‘beeping’ sound started. Dina looked around with a slightly irritated look and the beeping stopped. She leaned back up across the steering device to look at the samples, and this time, not only did the beeping return, but the cart started to move backwards! It startled both of us as I jumped back to make sure it didn’t roll over my toes, and she realized it was the CART that was making the noise and moving! She got a rather strange look on her face like “how the heck did that happen” when she leaned back up and suddenly realized it was her belly pressing up against the steering handle and pushing on the reverse paddle!
We both had a pretty good laugh over that, and then another as she did it again a few minutes later and we both jumped! It was at that point she figured out how to turn the power off, so she didn’t get in arrested for a DWB… Driving With her Belly!
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Dina on her Basket Buggy… Leaning back to avoid any sudden or unexpected belly assisted acceleration! |
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