Monday, January 08, 2007

A drawback to Idyllicville

Walla Walla is a great place to live, mostly, but the retail situation leaves something to be desired.

And what, you are no doubt asking yourself, do I mean by "something"?

The butterfly lady and I went out Sunday to find three simple items:
  • A spiky collar for Katy (for walks).
  • A rubber tire/rope toy for the above canine.
  • A basic piece of oak transition, the little wood ridge that on the floor between carpeted areas and non-carpeted areas. (non-basic detail - it needs to be 95 inches long).
And what did we find?
  • A flimsy, too-small spiky collar (which we didn't buy)
  • A shrimpy rubber tire with no rope (which we didn't buy)
  • Zero transitions of the correct specs (uh, we didn't buy the wrong ones, either)
Back to the drawing board. We only checked a few places, but there are only a few places to check. In times I like these, I miss the thickly settled East.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Sir Blogger. I found your page through my nightly hauntings on the Web. I beg to differ from your complaints on how hard it is to find something in the retail situation here. Honestly, I run a "finding service" and I have no trouble finding most anything that I want to find, even including what you've aforementioned. Let me know if you want to find something, I can find it for you! :)

Alasdair said...

Thank you for the reminder, Joseph. I know it isn't as bad as I make it sound; I'm just still accustomed to the megametropolitan/suburban sprawl of southern New Hampshire (Boston's real North Common).

That's cool, a finding service. I think mama (findable at mamamoonpie.blogspot.com) would be interested in talking to you...

Field Notes said...

Me, too! The reality of life in this place is that I often have to order things online. There is one place to shop in town for good quality, fashionable clothing that is affordable. If I want interesting underwear/lingerie, I have to wait until I go to PDX, ditto for jeans. Art supplies? Forget it. There's the college bookstore and they haven't got everything. A kennel/crate for an extra large dog. Good luck. Those are just a few of the things I've tried, and failed, to buy here.

Chase said...

This is why God, err, Al Gore invented the internet.

So you don't have to go to stores to buy stuff.

:p