If you want the worst of customer service, ineptitude, and absolute dismal performance,
check out Santa Barbara’s Grant House Sewing Machines!!
There is nothing worse than people who don’t care about their customers.
And this establishment of thougtlessness takes the cake.
I have personally seen service people ignore customers, be completely ignorant in their duties,
not know anything about sewing machines (which you might expect a sewing machine store to), and be unapologetic about their dismal performance and ass-clowning.
These barnyard troglodytes make elephant seals look totally elegant in the way they go about their business. This is the picture of what happens when a store has no competitor in town (though I heard that a team of banana slugs were opening shop in Santa Maria so watch out, Grant House).
If you like life, sewing, kindness, customer service, smiling, basic human kindness, or brain activity, stay away from Grant House Sewing Machines in Santa Barbara.
Cynthia McGivern
November 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Thanks for this review!
Grant House Sewing Machines needs to have a Bob Woodward-eque exposee disclosing their Nixonian jowl drooping performance.
I have been sewing and knitting for 38 years and rarely have I ever entertained the idea of jabbing sewing needles into my carotid artery and running my face through a loom.
When I do my high-end designer pin-cusion purchasing, I now do it through Amazon.
Thanks for your courage to review this soggy tampon of a business.
Debbie Orenthal
November 29, 2008 at 11:46 am
I now have seen the lowest depth of hell and its name is Grant House Sewing. I was about to make a baptism robe and I went to GHSM in Santa Barbara and I was told “Babies shouldn’t be baptised.” And I was like: “Well, that be true for you, but my sister and her baby are Lutheran so….” and one of the store clerks was like: “The Lord Satan disapproves of this sewing pattern.”
Not only did it smell like incense made from tortured souls in there, they had horrible
customer service.
Dealing with the devil may be alright if you’re trying to become the best blues guitarist, but not if you want to work in the fabric arts.
November 29, 2008 at 11:54 am
Thanks for this review!
I’ve had so much trouble with the horrible customer service at Grant House but I thought maybe I was the only one!
Now I see that there are hundreds of unhappy customers that are now finding their voice on this World Wide Web Net.
My grand-daughter Eva is helping me type this and I will only hope that when she is old enough to start sewing that she will have a sewing machine store that cares about their customers.
I remember when women didn’t have the right to vote. And I remember sewing many banners that
read “Give Us Gorgeous Gals the Vote!” but if I would have had to shop at Grant House, those banners would never have been made and I wouldn’t have been able to vote for Proposition 8 and John McCain this last year.
The only thing worse than my ciatica and gout is Grant House’s customer service.
Signed, Ms. Mary Elizabeth Hoske
December 6, 2008 at 9:23 am
I had sex with a dog, and I don’t know if I should tell my wife that I took our german shepard’s virginity. It was a little awkward but once I got into it, it was awesome. I just love our dog too much. Please help me decide if i should have a threesome with my wife, my dog and I. Kinky I know. My dog is a boy.
Yours truly,
hitler
December 6, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Thanks for the question.
Two things: 1)You have an unfortunate name, and 2) What’s up with the gender specifying for your pooch?
Can’t you just love your dog for who it is and not its gender?
You’ve got two questions here as I read it.
1) if you should tell your wife you humped the family dog and
2) if you should have a threeway.
The answer to 1 is yes, and the answer to
number would be contingent on response to 1.
You also neglected to say how the dog felt about all this. What’s up with that? If you love your dog so much, I would expect that you would be very attentive to its wants and needs-you took its virginity after all so you’d better have. That’s a very special occasion.
When it comes down to brass tacks, I’d have a full disclosure meeting with your wife, couple’s counselor, veterinarian, sex pathologist, and general practictioner before any more sexual incursions with your beloved pooch. Once you get the nod from these folks, get back to me for further advice.
Oh, and by the way: the customer service at Grant House Sewing Machines in Santa Barbara blows goat.
Ryan McGivern
December 16, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Dearest mindflowers,
I am a licensed psychotherapist and I
have to say that sex with animals is usually symptomatic of larger sexual issues that must be addressed by professionals. Although I appreciate the spirit of your answer, such sexual deviance is best left ignored as it can be a search for any sort of validation of the behavior.
Also, Grant House Sewing Machines in Santa Barbara’s customer service in my professional opinion, displays tendencies towards egomania, paranoid schizoid antisociality, and necrophiliac beaucracy.
Thanks!
Dr. Darryl Hotes