What a day!

Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm not really an outdoors, knows how to BBQ kind of man! However I have been taught how to do it by the grillmaster himself, my father! But over the years, I have had very little patience for it.

I told myself though that this holiday weekend, I was going to buy a new grill and try to start becoming the grillmaster. At least in burger form.

My wife has been asking me for days and almost 2 weeks to look at grills online and decide on which one to get. I procrastinated on the subject and she found the perfect one Friday night at Home Depot. It is a hybrid grill that does charcoal and gas! Perfect because I'm ready for the gas taste quite yet but I'm willing to try. So we purchase the grill online for pickup today (Saturday). Little did we know that the grill was 25 miles away from our house. It was the only one in stock.

We decided we would make a day out of it. We had pet training classes in Kennesaw earlier today and also was going to leave her there for grooming. Done! Off to go get the grill. We had a nice drive out to Woodstock and get to Home Depot. Well, we are shopping around for other things and I don't see my grill anywhere on display. No problem. I'll just go pickup it up at the customer service. They reveal it and Dana is already asking if we can take the side of it off so we can fit it better into the car. This might be a problem.

The Home Depot reps tell me to pull around. One look at my Kia Soul and they say "That is not going to fit!" I politely ask them to take the side of the grill off. Nope! They told me "We can't take it off. And if we did take it off, you wouldn't want to go through the hassle of putting it back on. What?!? Ok well do you have it in a box? We have to check but if we did, you wouldn't want to put this together. It is too complicated!"

"Well how do I get it home?? I'm not renting a truck!"

After about another hour of Dana trying to get the customer service rep to check another store close by (which they are sold out!) we decide on our own to try to shove it into the car with the grill part hanging out. Another Home Depot worker sees us and asks "Nobody wanted to help you put that in the car?" I said it is a long story but no! He very cooperatively helped us get it tied down so we could get it home. They tied it down to the bolt where the rear windshield wiper is. I told him "If he heard on the news about a grill falling out of a car onto I-575 and hitting others, that it was me and I'm sorry!" After we got it tied down, the other guy who was also helping said "I would have just taken the side off. What?!? I asked them that and they said no! He said I've done that many of times." LORD HAVE MERCY!! After many prayers and carefully driving with my hazard lights on, I made it into the driveway! It was a hot day and I was very tired! I also cut my finger trying to close this piece that fits back onto the grill.

I haven't grilled on it yet and it isn't in it's final resting place yet. I will have a further update on Sunday or Monday about how the grill faired.

LORD HAVE MERCY WHAT A DAY!