I'm with you on this, Cynthia...............sometimes it feels as if I am having a nightmare that I cannot wake up from.

That is just crazy! It is in no way a little shovel! I guess that's what kind of help $7.50 an hour buys :-)

there was a little tag attached to the trowell I bought that that called it a "hand transplanter" in English and Spanish.

I went to Ace today and noticed that they have trowel above the hook where the various trowels hang. Their trowels also are using English and Spanishon the trowel itself. Maybe they don't use trowel and that is the reason for the shift.They must describe what it does.

I know little in Spanish but learned that they do not have a word for stroke, must describe what actually happened in the body. Who knows.

If you really want to confuse them at the big box stores, try asking for a Bill Dookie!

Its not a dull day thanks to debndal! I'd never heard that term before, and had to look it up. :)

come on... a trowel???? They are working in the gardening area and they don't know the names of things? Its just sad.

Try looking for Bing cherries in a can at Walmart. :( They finally found me an older lady who knew what they were. None of the cans say 'Bing' on them anymore and no one but me and that older lady had a clue what I was asking for.
But the jello salad turned out exactly as I remember it from my childhood.

Haven't made or eaten it in at least 30 years.

Yeah check this out. I've asked for a drain spade at Lowes and they're like huh? So I show them what it is and they say oh that's a shovel. So I go to another Lowes and ask for a sharpshooter and when I show them what it is they its a shovel.

Y'all remind me that I am not alone. the language is changing. But with all the cash and talk about better diet for teens I am still not surprised when I buy something exotic and the young man or woman doesn't recognize a fig or even an odd radish. In fact, I was checking out as the 20ish bagger was surprised to see one veg. He asked what is that? I replied cauliflower. He said is that broccoli or something? sighh

What is also happening is that so many people don't do anything but computer and just don't know that there are different functions to the different shapes of similar tools. A snow shovel does not work well digging a post hole.

I do think that the world has become visual learners and not verbal learners. I have heard educators talk about this shift. Our kids have become rewired by all these forms of media.

I see what I call lack of general information all of the time and it frustrates me. Last year, I went into a Kirklands store and asked the pretty girl (appeared to be college age) where the nativities were. She said she didn't think they had any....and followed with "what are they"?
Molly

Most people do not even know how to garden much less have ever worked in one. As for Bing Cherries I can understand that as there so many different sweet cherries either fresh or canned. When I was a young boy I was told the only reason for raising Sweet Cherries was so the birds would leave our sour cherry trees alone. Sweet cherries do not make good pies, but are only good eaten fresh or now canned.