unbelievably frustrating shopping experience at Lowe's yesterday

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182. I'd suggest you do all yr purchasing online and do an anger management course...

Reading what you posted, you need the latter, and purchasing online would save any other shop assistants from bullying...

'He's standing there with a bemused look on his face and I want to run over him with the Lowe's electric cart I'm using!
I told him I wanted a salesperson with at least 1/2 a brain and rolled away.
Needless to say, I totally skewered the asshole salesperson.'

My father was verbally abusive when I was a kid. He mainly stuck to aiming it at my mother, but his other target was salespeople. He'd tell them they were stupid and had no brains when they didn't give him the answer he wanted when he wanted it. Please don't be like him. A far more civil and constructive way to deal with a situation where you or the other person is getting frustrated is to ask politely to speak to a manager. Just do that and give the abusing the salesperson and wanting to run them over bit a big miss. That's the mature thing to do...