By Randy Sharp, AFA Special Projects Coordinator

January 2003 – Do you not care about my business anymore? Why did you choose to just brush me off? After all, I consider myself one of your most faithful customers.

I've contacted you several times about your increased sponsorship of indecent and offensive television shows, and you didn't even have the courtesy to respond. I don't understand how you can justify taking profits from my purchases to help place so much cursing and so many perverted sex acts on television. It certainly has nothing to do with home improvement.

Are you aware that I've spent thousands of dollars with your company over the past two years? I have the receipts to prove it. In fact, I drive by your largest competitor just to do business with you. But now it seems you don't care why I may not be coming back.

You see, I consider myself a bit of a handyman around the house, just the kind of person you depend on to keep your doors open for business. But as much as I care about the upkeep of my house, I care more about building a family home with strong values and common decency. Home Depot, you're not helping my situation.

So, now I'm taking a closer look at whether or not I want to keep doing business with you. I'm not interested in supporting a business that aligns itself with prostitution, cross-dressing, vulgar language and bloodthirsty violence on television.

While houses may be built with brick and mortar alone, homes are built on certain values, and this is where we differ. I cannot, in good conscience, support your house- building business, if you don't support my home-building business.

Home Depot, if you want my continued business, let me know. After many months, I'm still waiting on your response.

Randy Sharp  

Randy Sharp is an avid woodworker, former loyal Home Depot customer, and AFA Special Projects Coordinator. He says, "In November, over 20,000 members of AFA's online initiatives OneMillionMoms.com and OneMillionDads.com contacted Home Depot concerning their sponsorship of offensive television shows. To our knowledge, Home Depot did not reply to a single person."