Doors

So I bought a new door. A new balcony door. For my almost-new 40 year old but only one-year old to me apartment. The old door wouldn't shut all the way. I spent all of last winter wearing 20 pairs of socks because of the draft. I spend lots of $$ paying to heat the apartment that had the draft. I suspect it was the heating of the draft that caused my very old heating unit to break, costing me even more $$ for a new one.

So this summer, I decided I would get a new door. A shiny, glossy, with window in it to make more light in my apartment new door. I ordered it in August. Turns out, if you are not planning to install the door yourself, you can't just buy a door.

You go to a spiffy window and door place, where a spiffy man inquires whether you wouldn't rather be at Home Depot, because "our prices are rather steeper."

Maintaining your composer at this rude individual who seems to think you are not planning to drop over $2K on this door--you'll show him!!!---you proceed with the picking out of the door.

But no, you can't just pick a door. You have to have an in-home consultation. The much friendlier door consultant measures your door, measures your screen, measures everything, explains to you all the different details about doors you never even thought of--like do you really need a knocked for a balcony door on the 9th floor? Well, unless Spiderman or Superman stop by, probably not. And if they do, well I think you've got bigger problems than useless door knockers.

So I paid more than $2300 for my new door-screen balcony entrance and exist system. And patiently waited for 8 weeks for my system to be "engineered" and scheduled my appointment. Wednesday October 26, 7 a.m. Seven a.m. Ha! Little did I know....