I Have A Dream!

mid-afternoon on Friday, the 26th of October 2007 by Chad

My dream begins with me walking through the park. It is a glorious day. Birds singing and all that good stuff.

I come across a man sitting on a park bench, I sit down next to him.

Following lots of small talk I ask what he does for a living.

He lets me know that he designs things that use Allen wrenches to install, I have a conundrum.

After I murder him in the most horrible way I can possibly imagine, do I set up a press conference to be hailed as a hero by everyone who has ever had to use an Allen wrench, or do I just go quietly away, hoping that I truly made a difference in everyone’s life.

….

My ire for today brought to you buy the scum who designed a bracket to hang LCD TV’s on the wall. So you have these giant screws that go deep into the stud about 3 1/2 inches. about 1/4" diameter. These are pretty darn beefy screws, considering they hold up a TV. And they go in via an Allen wrench. No way to use a power tool on this one.

Well, the top one stripped itself about a 32nd away from being tight. And that’s after almost breaking my fingers tightening this damn thing in to a stud. And of course the cap of the screw is nicely rounded, so you can’t even use a wrench to finish the damn thing. Since the head is stripped you can’t even back it out and replace it.

This completely took any joy at all from setting up the new LCD. My fingers still hurt from being smashed. Bastards.