{"id":895,"date":"2009-06-09T23:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-06-09T23:17:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T03:17:23","slug":"passive-aggressive-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/passive-aggressive-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Aggressive Sign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brantford<\/a>

Rona, as it used to was.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not far from the friendly confines of Juniorvania, there used to be a Rona<\/a> store.\u00a0 Careful and attentive readers may remember this store making a cameo appearance in a home improvement saga related to the making of shelves<\/a> from last year. I think I went in to that store the day I was looking for the melamine to finish up that shelving project and on two other occasions, both of which were on the same day:\u00a0 it was the day I purchased some scrap cedar to make the rails on the side of our compost heap and the risers<\/a> for the grass stairs that run alongside the largest of our gardens in the back.<\/p>\n

Three visits on two days in the course of about fifteen months;\u00a0 not very many visits at all, compared to the time Spouse and I have spent in the Lowe’s and even (shudder) Home Depot in that same time period, though both stores are much further away.\u00a0 I guess if I was in to augury as it relates to home improvement centres, I would have given the matter some serious consideration and I would have likely come to the obvious conclusion (after ripping apart and examining the entrails of a shop vac and a mitre box) that the fact that I didn’t throw a lot of business the way of a store that was essentially in my backyard probably didn’t bode well for the survival of the place.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, on one of our drives by the Rona, we noticed that it had indeed gone out of business.\u00a0 Here’s a picture of the message left for the citizens of Brantford by the folks at the recently demised Rona:<\/p>\n

\"Passive<\/a>

We didn't have a middle finger graphic, or we woulda posted THAT.<\/p><\/div>\n

Closed. Thanks, Brantford! Way to go, citizens of the telephone city! If you heartless bastards could have found it in your cold, cold hearts to simply purchase a couple more board feet of pressure-treated lumber; if you could have managed to squeeze a single snow shovel into your annual basket of consumer good purchases; if you could have maybe managed to buy your paper towels here instead of at the 7-Eleven, you ridiculous hammerheads, we might not be boarding up the windows right now. Terrific. Thanks a fucking million!<\/p>\n

I think that’s what the sign says. Maybe it’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rona, as it used to was.<\/p>\n

Not far from the friendly confines of Juniorvania, there used to be a Rona store. Careful and attentive readers may remember this store making a cameo appearance in a home improvement saga related to the making of shelves from last year. I think I went in to that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,26,16],"tags":[773,1189,774,775,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}