Finding a screw at Home Depot

They say Home Depot can help with any job. Man, can they ever!

The Atlanta-based hardware giant, which has worked to establish itself as the nation's largest home improvement store, is finding itself also gaining a reputation for having restrooms popular for those seeking anonymous sex.

The cruisingforsex.com website, which lists gay bars, rest stops and rural service stations where men can meet for quickies, says the restrooms at the huge Home Depot on Sidney Marcus Boulevard is so busy that often action-seekers have to leave and come back when the line has gone down.

Meanwhile, the website for the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Visitor's Center lists the Buckhead store — described as the "Homo Depot" — as a cruisy spot on the order of nightclubs like the Heretic.

And the intown store is not the only one with its own tool time. The website also describes action at Home Depot stores in Austell, Douglasville, Lawrenceville and Doraville, where the restroom is full of "hot macho guys waiting to get sucked," according to the site.

Over at Big Orange headquarters, the idea that the stores are known for blowjobs as well as roofing jobs is greeted with some resignation. "It flares up every once in a while," says Don Harrison, a company spokesman. "But we don't concern ourselves with that reputation one way or another."

Harrison says he's not sure how true the reputation is, and if it is accurate, why a giant hardware chain store somehow came to host these underground hardware demonstrations. But he says that if customers complain, store management will take action against the action.

"We don't want anything going on in our booths that would be better going on in a private home," he says.