Home Depot

I may reward myself with a trip to a nearby Home Depot garden shop this evening to buy pots, planters, and/or seeds. My family would like to plant basil, cilantro, and jalapeno seeds. I will thank you to refrain from drawing negative or incorrect conclusions about my family based on what we would like to plant.

I will not be buying dirt or potting mixes. I have enough of that stuff. I once worked at a garden shop at a Kmart. That experience strengthened, but did not create my desire to plant things. That experience also strengthened my desire to not work at Kmart. My observations of that store was that it was poorly run and poorly staffed, present company excluded, of course. I once owned stock in Kmart. That was as foolish as planting money! I should have known better.

You might say, metaphorically, that stocks are like plants; they can grow or die. If you said this I would think you are incorrect (stocks really are not very much like plants), and that you (or anyone else) speaking metaphorically is generally a waste of everyone's time.

There was a Star Trek episode once where Piccard was stranded on some inhospitable planet with a hostile companion who spoke a language entirely comprised of metaphor. There was very little worthwhile plant life on this planet. In my opinion the captain should have stayed aboard Enterprise. That episode was a waste of time. Owning stock in Kmart, for me, turned out to be a waste of money and also time, but primarily money.