Lowes: low on prices and low on overly helpful employees.

Today was a very crazy insane day for me. Due to my ongoing struggle with procrastination, which I crumble to almost every time, I was forced to put together an entire portfolio for my interior design class today. I started at noon today and finally finished around 10 tonight. It was awesome. Anyway, during the process I had to go to Lowe's to pick out all my flooring, cabinets, countertops, doors, windows, sinks, tubs, showers, the list goes on and on. As I am looking for all of this material while being under a time crunch, I was really hoping that I would not be bugged by overly helpful employees in their cute little aprons walking up to me and saying, "you can do it, we can help", which happens to me almost every time I walk into a Home Depot.  Okay no one has actually ever said those exact words to me but they always ask me if I need help at least a million times and it drives me nuts! I appreciate their helpfulness but I don't want it every second that I am in attendance at the store. If I do need help, trust me I will ask you apron wearing person. Well anyways, after all my lovely experiences with The Home Depot, I was hoping Lowe's would be a little better but wasn't really expecting it or getting my hopes up. I was mentally preparing myself to be annoyed with 30 people coming up to me wanting to "build something together". However, I am happy to report that I was pleasantly left alone the majority of the time, granted I tried to make myself look like I knew exactly what I was doing, but I loved the fact that I could walk by a pack of employees and not have every single one of them bombard me with help I didn't need. I was only asked by a couple of employees if I needed help, I politely declined and they left me alone to get my business done. They said if I had any questions to just holler. I loved that. So needless to say, a trip that would have taken me about 2 hours at The Home Depot, took me a grand total of about 45 minutes at Lowe's. It was awesome that there were employees everywhere I turned so that if I needed some extra assistance they were always around, but at the same time they didn't follow me around everywhere I went. It was overall a lovely experience and allowed me to get to work on making my portfolio, which kicks butt by the way!