Brothers The Plumbing Store

I think I just met a magical being. I spent two days going to various other stores looking for a replacement valve for a kitchen faucet. I was about to give up and just buy a whole new faucet when I met the valve whisperer. There I am, waiting in line at Brothers, when up walks the valve whisperer... they gazed at me sagely over the thick rims of their bulging eyeglasses and croaked knowingly... "What can I help you find". I show them the part that had befuddled armies of Sacramento area hardware associates... they mutter something about "you don't see these very often any more, do you?", and lead me to a wall of about ten thousand almost indistinguishably similar parts... then immediately grab the correct match and hand it to me... no consulting a giant tome of plumbing... no googling... just up and grab it for me like they knew I was coming. Utter beauty. I'm still riding that high.