Eric Payne
01-22-2008, 11:19 PM
Bill's going to be home all week, we're repairing some stuff around the house, putting on some new paint and staging it... before officially listing it this weekend with Bill's employer's preferred realtor. Ultimately, of course, it's all going to be useless - our neighbor's home was on the market for six months before she finally just let the listing expire. Real Estate just isn't moving right now. We're lucky, though, in that Bill's employer, as part of the relocation package, has agreed to buy the house if it doesn't sell in 30 days.
Anyway, he needed some stuff, so I jumped on Gilligan and glode three miles to a certain store, entered, picked up the stuff he needed, went through check-out and paid, left the store, glode back to my starting point, but went an additional 2 miles east to Home Depot to pick up a few other items the first store didn't have, then glode home.
Later in the afternoon, my dealer called to confirm our Lithium order (should be here within two weeks - ten business days). Since our dealer is also the dealer providing the Security Team Segways for the Super Bowl, I put him in contact with Carrie Waters, the reporter who did a piece on me, Barnes and Noble, and Segs 4 Vets in the "Arizona Republic." When I told my dealer of the store I had gone to, he was surprised; he'd been told this store's policy was to ask the glider to leave their Segway with store security, and to utilize one of the store's electric scooters in the store. I told Brian the only comments I had gotten from store employees were: "Cool," "that looks like fun," and "I've gotta get me one of those."
The store? Wal-Mart Supercenter, 7975 W. Peoria Avenue, Peoria, AZ.
Has Wal-Mart been blocking Seg use in their stores? I'd never been in one before with Gilligan (hell, I think I've only been in a Wal-Mart twice, anyway, in my life).
Anyway, he needed some stuff, so I jumped on Gilligan and glode three miles to a certain store, entered, picked up the stuff he needed, went through check-out and paid, left the store, glode back to my starting point, but went an additional 2 miles east to Home Depot to pick up a few other items the first store didn't have, then glode home.
Later in the afternoon, my dealer called to confirm our Lithium order (should be here within two weeks - ten business days). Since our dealer is also the dealer providing the Security Team Segways for the Super Bowl, I put him in contact with Carrie Waters, the reporter who did a piece on me, Barnes and Noble, and Segs 4 Vets in the "Arizona Republic." When I told my dealer of the store I had gone to, he was surprised; he'd been told this store's policy was to ask the glider to leave their Segway with store security, and to utilize one of the store's electric scooters in the store. I told Brian the only comments I had gotten from store employees were: "Cool," "that looks like fun," and "I've gotta get me one of those."
The store? Wal-Mart Supercenter, 7975 W. Peoria Avenue, Peoria, AZ.
Has Wal-Mart been blocking Seg use in their stores? I'd never been in one before with Gilligan (hell, I think I've only been in a Wal-Mart twice, anyway, in my life).