July 29, 2011
4. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store, Barre, VT
Aubochon Hardware has three, orange “Caution” road cones along the side of its store. I didn’t look much at Aubochon’s Hardware store today. I did see that it has removed the banner for “summer youth football” that it had across the front of it a few weeks ago, when I reported that there seemed to be advertising for child molestation in front of the banner. I don’t know how long the banner has been gone. I've seen people who were promoting harassment and other issues leave up displays past the dates of the events, so even if it's too late in the summer to sign up for that program and it would have been logical to remove the banner for it for that reason, it's not bad that the banner is gone.
Across the side street to Aubochon Hardware is Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store.
The entire glass front of Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store in Barre, VT is filled with 2 displays. On the left is a display about Great Britain, and on the right is a display about Spain. It must have taken hours for the displays to be created; I only took notes about the most obvious things.
On the right side: Spain:
--Above the entire display, there is a green, rectangular banner that shows a man with a hammer in his hand. It says "The Granite Center of the World."
--Behind the display, on the front of the first endcap in the store, there's a Red Sox sweatshirt
In the display:
--red, child’s skirt and little shoes
--A group of dolls all lying on their backs around a larger doll who is lying on top of two books. The first book is “Delicioso! The Regional Cooking of Spain,” by an author whose first name is Penelope. The doll is wearing a short dress; its legs are open and the doll’s underwear is completely visible above the title “Delicioso!”
--There are several books throughout the display. Nearer the front window, a foot or so in front of the dolls there’s another book by the same author whose first name is Penelope. That book is entitled “TAPAS: The little dishes of Spain.”
--Near that book, there’s another one by the same author, “PAELLA!” There’s water in the background of the picture, which shows a large pan of paella with mussels, shrimp, and everything else that’s in paella.
--In that same section of the display, there’s a Spanish-style red doll’s dress on what looks like its original piece of cardboard packaging that says “bbarbie.” It was spelled that way: “bbarbie.”
--Next over, there’s another red skirt
--The red skirt is in front of a large, framed picture of two children, a boy and a girl, who look as if they’re on a mule. The picture is called “Los Ninos.”
--To the right of all of that is a display of windmills. There’s a large picture of a windmill behind a small figurine of a windmill, next to what looked like a figurine of Don Quixote.
On the left side of the storefront, on the other side of the door, the display about Great Britain has some of the following in it:
--a red, child-sized hockey jersey that says “Canucks” on the front and has a number “6” on the back
--A skate with a stuffed animal frog in it
--the hockey display is next to a pink and red crib-or-child-sized patchwork quilt
--next over: containers of puzzles in the front of the window, including one that says “Encore,” showing a picture of a castle with a moat
--A book that says “Villages of England, w/photographs by Richard Turpin and Text by Roger Hunt” another water scene
--boxes of tea stacked up in the front window; the top one has a picture of a lion on it.
--A spinning wheel, with a poster that says:
“Spinning Wheel Belonged to Annie Graham Murray
Who emigrated from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland in 1873 to Hampden, Quebec
Great-grandmother of Margaret Polli Caccaro and Linda Craig Taylor”
(This is one of those times when I wish I had better handwriting; it’s either Linda Craig Taylor or Linda Craige Taylor. It looks as if I wrote “Craige,” which seems odd, but it’s a name from a long time ago, so, even though it looks legible as far as how I write things goes, I can’t honestly say if it’s “Craig” or “Craige.” Also; I was getting angrier by the second, and my handwriting gets worse the angrier I get.)
--Next to the spinning wheel, there’s a cotton poster about Scotland. It says: “Wha’s Like Us? Damn’ Few and They’re A ‘Deid!”
--In the front of the window, there’s a small picture whose caption says “Historic Millstone Hill”
--Another picture with a caption that says “Richard (Dick) Milne”
--Another picture with a caption that says “MonyMusk Scotland”
That’s not all that was in the windows. However, there were two female staff at the cash register right in the store, a few feet away in front of the displays. They had been watching me take notes and laughing. I looked at them; the older woman looked at me and rubbed her nose. Both of the women did that; the younger one looked as if she might still be in her teens. It’s not as if she knows any better than to behave that way, working at that place where her boss acts that way.
Here’s the part where I lost my temper, and yelled into the front door that had been open since before I started taking notes:
“I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU LOSE! I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU F---ERS LOSE!”
It always surprises me when people look surprised when I express my unhappiness with their sickening behavior; what do they expect? The older woman actually looked disapproving; she looked disapproving because of my reaction to the display in that window.
Was my reaction polite? No, it wasn’t. I walked away then, and tried to calm myself before I got any angrier. I hope I’m right about the message I was giving those women, even though I didn’t express it politely; I hope they lose.
4. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store, Barre, VT
Copyright L. Kochman July 29, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m.
4. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store, Barre, VT
Aubochon Hardware has three, orange “Caution” road cones along the side of its store. I didn’t look much at Aubochon’s Hardware store today. I did see that it has removed the banner for “summer youth football” that it had across the front of it a few weeks ago, when I reported that there seemed to be advertising for child molestation in front of the banner. I don’t know how long the banner has been gone. I've seen people who were promoting harassment and other issues leave up displays past the dates of the events, so even if it's too late in the summer to sign up for that program and it would have been logical to remove the banner for it for that reason, it's not bad that the banner is gone.
Across the side street to Aubochon Hardware is Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store.
The entire glass front of Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store in Barre, VT is filled with 2 displays. On the left is a display about Great Britain, and on the right is a display about Spain. It must have taken hours for the displays to be created; I only took notes about the most obvious things.
On the right side: Spain:
--Above the entire display, there is a green, rectangular banner that shows a man with a hammer in his hand. It says "The Granite Center of the World."
--Behind the display, on the front of the first endcap in the store, there's a Red Sox sweatshirt
In the display:
--red, child’s skirt and little shoes
--A group of dolls all lying on their backs around a larger doll who is lying on top of two books. The first book is “Delicioso! The Regional Cooking of Spain,” by an author whose first name is Penelope. The doll is wearing a short dress; its legs are open and the doll’s underwear is completely visible above the title “Delicioso!”
--There are several books throughout the display. Nearer the front window, a foot or so in front of the dolls there’s another book by the same author whose first name is Penelope. That book is entitled “TAPAS: The little dishes of Spain.”
--Near that book, there’s another one by the same author, “PAELLA!” There’s water in the background of the picture, which shows a large pan of paella with mussels, shrimp, and everything else that’s in paella.
--In that same section of the display, there’s a Spanish-style red doll’s dress on what looks like its original piece of cardboard packaging that says “bbarbie.” It was spelled that way: “bbarbie.”
--Next over, there’s another red skirt
--The red skirt is in front of a large, framed picture of two children, a boy and a girl, who look as if they’re on a mule. The picture is called “Los Ninos.”
--To the right of all of that is a display of windmills. There’s a large picture of a windmill behind a small figurine of a windmill, next to what looked like a figurine of Don Quixote.
On the left side of the storefront, on the other side of the door, the display about Great Britain has some of the following in it:
--a red, child-sized hockey jersey that says “Canucks” on the front and has a number “6” on the back
--A skate with a stuffed animal frog in it
--the hockey display is next to a pink and red crib-or-child-sized patchwork quilt
--next over: containers of puzzles in the front of the window, including one that says “Encore,” showing a picture of a castle with a moat
--A book that says “Villages of England, w/photographs by Richard Turpin and Text by Roger Hunt” another water scene
--boxes of tea stacked up in the front window; the top one has a picture of a lion on it.
--A spinning wheel, with a poster that says:
“Spinning Wheel Belonged to Annie Graham Murray
Who emigrated from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland in 1873 to Hampden, Quebec
Great-grandmother of Margaret Polli Caccaro and Linda Craig Taylor”
(This is one of those times when I wish I had better handwriting; it’s either Linda Craig Taylor or Linda Craige Taylor. It looks as if I wrote “Craige,” which seems odd, but it’s a name from a long time ago, so, even though it looks legible as far as how I write things goes, I can’t honestly say if it’s “Craig” or “Craige.” Also; I was getting angrier by the second, and my handwriting gets worse the angrier I get.)
--Next to the spinning wheel, there’s a cotton poster about Scotland. It says: “Wha’s Like Us? Damn’ Few and They’re A ‘Deid!”
--In the front of the window, there’s a small picture whose caption says “Historic Millstone Hill”
--Another picture with a caption that says “Richard (Dick) Milne”
--Another picture with a caption that says “MonyMusk Scotland”
That’s not all that was in the windows. However, there were two female staff at the cash register right in the store, a few feet away in front of the displays. They had been watching me take notes and laughing. I looked at them; the older woman looked at me and rubbed her nose. Both of the women did that; the younger one looked as if she might still be in her teens. It’s not as if she knows any better than to behave that way, working at that place where her boss acts that way.
Here’s the part where I lost my temper, and yelled into the front door that had been open since before I started taking notes:
“I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU LOSE! I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU F---ERS LOSE!”
It always surprises me when people look surprised when I express my unhappiness with their sickening behavior; what do they expect? The older woman actually looked disapproving; she looked disapproving because of my reaction to the display in that window.
Was my reaction polite? No, it wasn’t. I walked away then, and tried to calm myself before I got any angrier. I hope I’m right about the message I was giving those women, even though I didn’t express it politely; I hope they lose.
4. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 Nelson’s Ace Hardware Store, Barre, VT
Copyright L. Kochman July 29, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m.