Neill’s adventure getting pine straw

On Thurs Neill and I decided that I would stay at the house and continue to strip paint off the door while he went to get some pine straw for the dog run. So his first stop was to the midtown Home Depot location. He went into the garden area and found an outside lawn and garden worker, and here is how their conversation went:

Neill: “Do y’all have any pine straw?”  

Worker: “What?”

Neill clearly enunciates: “PINE STRAW”

Worker: “What kind of plant is that? What does the plant look like? What is it?”

Neill explains: “There are Pine trees with pine needles and when you gather them up that is pine straw. People put it in their flower bed instead of mulch.”

The worker became confused with the mention of a Pine tree, so he called over his co-worker. The co-worker was also unaware of what pine straw was, so they then called over a manager. After Neill explained what pine straw was a third time the manager seemed to recall seeing that word on an order form, and was able to answer Neill’s question. No they did not carry pine straw.  He then went to Lowes and picked up pine straw from there.