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Original Post: Mathematical theory of negetive impact of time during Home Depot shopping
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After recently purchasing my first new home I have discovered the joys and follys of home ownership. Home Depot and Lowe's are very fun places to shop at the beginning of the experience. They have everything you want for your house and it is fun to pick it all out, but due to a few things you will soon find that unless you get in and get out as fast as possible something will happen.
It starts with sore feet from the concrete floors and aisles that are a mile long. Soon after the thirst will kick in and you will start to feel like a nomad wandering the dessert in search of the last wall hook or 3-way rocker switch in almond or window latch or 2"x6"x4' or spray paint or spackle or paint brush or ceiling fan or... you get the point.
After a few trips and then trips to return things from the previous trips and at least one more repetition of the same I have come up with a simple function that can be done on any graphing calculator or the Powertoys Calculator for Windows XP. This chart shows the effect of increasing time spent in Home Depot during the home purchasing project to the amount of fun you have doing it.
As you can see from the function there is an exponential decrease in fun as you increase time spent. This is easier to see in chart form.
I think this sums up the experience most of us have with these large warehouse stores. If you have the option please, dear god please pay someone to do this for you.
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