Dorn True Value Hardware

I pre-​order a machine three in advance with to pickup and the assistant manager was drunk at the rental desk acted llime it was a big problem to rent to me. This is a guy that should not be any type of management. I will never go there again. The non-​rental cost me $ 250 in help that i could not fine another rental place sunday.

Very friendly and helpful staff, a good supply of stuff for the size of the store, a good place to buy locally on a super Saturday!

I’ve only been to this place a handful of times, as I am completely mechanically inept. But they have gardening stuff (I’m bad at that, too, but I do try) and they make keys. It has a definite small town feel to it, which I like. The cashiers have always been friendly.
I had a key made a week ago. I marched to the back of the store where the key-​making magic happens. There was no one around, so I rang the annoying little bell and had somebody there inside of a minute. He made my key and then handed me the key. That was it! No receipt, not a bag, not even the little barcode slip that Walmart puts on fabric. In a trust-​induced haze I wandered to the front register. I showed my key to the young man and told him that I’d had a key made (pretty sure he could have figured it out, but I hate to assume). He rang me up and off I went.
The dark side of this fairy tale is that the key doesn’t work very well. It only locks the dead bolt (doesn’t unlock) and only unlocks the door knob lock (doesn’t lock it). However, my husband used to make keys at a hardware store in Madison years ago, and he said that happens a lot and they’ll fix it when (if) I get around to taking it back and asking them to.

I hardly ever buy anything here, mostly because it’s overpriced and/​or I just don’t need it. However, me and the minor come here often to play. If you were there last week you may have seen us with dryer vent coils on our arms and a tomato cage on our heads singing «domo arigato Mr. Roboto.» We also ran around the store with the hand held seed spreaders pretending to spray poison on bad guy aliens. After that we jousted with various gardening tools, don’t worry, they weren’t too sharp!
I’m pretty sure the employees here hate us, and I don’t blame them. But it’s just so much fun to run up and down the creepy, dark aisles and explore, and we do put everything back before we leave.