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I've had the opposite problem at Home Depot recently. I'm replacing 2 x 6's on my deck.
I expect them to be 5.5 inches wide, but the boards at Home Depot (and Lowe's too) have been consistently wider at 5 5/8 to 5 3/4. I had to buy a power planer to make the boards fit.
Clearly a lawsuit is in order as they gave you too much wood and you dulled your planer trimming them.
But I will bet a dinner at the best restaurant in town that he will never file a lawsuit over a 12x12 being 11.5"x11.5".
Not sure I have ever seen a 12x12, and certainly not in a HD, but once the width of a 2-by-x reaches 8 inches or more, the width drops down to 1/4" instead of 1/2". A 2x12 is actually 1 1⁄2 × 11 1⁄4.
I think the computer industry switched to SATA drives just in time. Can't imagine how that master/slave designation for IDE devices would go over today.
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