...assembling flat-pack furniture should be a lot easier than it is.
The palm of my hand is raw from the butt of the screwdriver digging into it. And I almost sat on the tube of glue supplied.
(I know they always include spares, but is it normal to have about twenty small screws left over?)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Surely, in this day and age...
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Get an electric screwdriver. It has revolutionised my life. I flat-pack all over the place now and everything there to screw gets screwed.
Yes, go electric, Matt.
I like the meatballs at Ikea. The rest, you can keep. It is usually two hours of frustration as the rest of the family watches television as I curse with the hex bolts and indecipherable instructions in a small room.
*curses quietly*
Just some of the trials and tribulations of living in a ultra-modern world Matt.
BTW - what's happened to Fisking Central? Looks as though it's been taken over by Treehuggers...
Get yourself a soft rubber handled screwdriver, assuming you have a plastic one at the moment - much cheaper than the electric, and the exercise won't do you any harm - I think...
As for IKEA meatballs...
BTW - What happened to Fisking Central? Looks all corporate and treehugging...
I think I might have an electric one somewhere, but it feels less manly. The one I use has a special extra-grip end that either a) allows you to get the screws in easily or b) digs into the palm of your hand when the little f*ckers refuse to go in.
Courtney,
I assume that Baby Washington and Matt C didn't renew the domain name. Makes sense - no-one had posted on the site except spammers for ages. Noticed the new person/people a little while ago. It's slightly ironic that they seem to be Robert Fisk fans.
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