Get It In Writing

Has it really been two months since I spilled the beans about the truth behind the Ave Maria Incident? Sheesh.

But I digress. Today, I'd like to talk about cabinets and customer service.

My husband and I dismantled our kitchen before harvest. We started demolition on August 15th. Today is December 15th. Four months. FOUR MONTHS. Guess what? I'm still washing dishes in the bathroom.

The limiting factor: No kitchen cabinets. And not for lack of trying. We ordered them. (From Creative Cabinets on North Vermilion in Danville, Illinois. BUYER BEWARE.) The cabinets came. The cabinets came out of the boxes. The cabinets went right back into their boxes.

How do I hate these cabinets? Let me count the ways. Ugly. Cheap. Thin. Trashy. These cabinets are not worthy of being installed in a trailer.

So now I have to sue Mr. Chris White at Creative Cabinets to get my down payment. Isn't that great? In the meantime, I guess I am going to keep doing dishes in the bathroom. Isn't that appetizing?

Lesson learned: Get it in writing. Make them write down that the cabinets are pretty, well made, wood, thick, substantive. Make them write down that wood means wood. Take nothing for granted; I discovered that wood does indeed not mean wood.

I'm having a Clinton flashback. What does "is" mean?