Get a Load of This!

Today’s subject has little, if anything, to do with green, but it is definitely curmudgeonly. I walked into Home Depot the other day and to my surprise (well only somewhat, as I had heard about this and was looking for it), I spy a flyer for their custom bath remodeling services. The interesting thing about the flyer is that the bath photograph was not a remodeling project. Why do I know, you ask? Well, because it is a bathroom in a new house I built in 2007. Not only is it not a remodeling project, it had nothing to do with Home Depot. Now, I don’t think there was any malicious intent in their using this photo. They probably got it from one of the manufacturers who provided products for the house. It ended up in their marketing department, or an outside agency, where someone putting together an ad, looking for a nice bathroom shot, ran across it and popped it. About a million printings later, and viola, I am famous in my anonymity, serving the purposes of the big orange box.

I don’t have any ill feelings towards them, as a matter of fact, I kind of appreciate finding something new to complain about. I was running out of ideas, and BOOM!, one lands in my lap. Hopefully they will learn the errors of their ways and change the photo. I would like to get credit for the work, but the chance of that is somewhere between zero and non existent, so I won’t hold my breath. In the meantime, I will just keep whining about it and sharing it with friends and foes alike.

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