I Have a Million of These<\/i><\/p>\n
Mr. Tool Idiot has struck again.<\/p>\n
I had an electric leaf blower in the garage. It was always in the way. I had a Rubbermaid hook designed to hold up yard tools. I figured it was time to introduce them to each other. The hook wasn’t designed for this thing, but I found a way to make them work together, and I decided to put the hook about nine feet off the ground so I could reach up and hang the blower far out of my way.<\/p>\n
No problem. I unfolded my ladder and set it up. I drilled a 1\/4″ hole with my wonderful hammer drill. I inserted a plastic anchor and used my Panasonic impact driver to drive a screw into it. I marked the position for the other screw. I swung the hook out of the way. I drilled the hole, seated the anchor, and started driving the screw. And when it got down to the surface of the hook IT POPPED OFF NEARLY FLUSH WITH THE WALL.<\/p>\n
Damn, Rubbermaid gave me crappy screws! I’ve never had a screw just pop off like that. A decent screw will strip before it will break. This one was almost like pot metal. And now I had half a millimeter of screw sticking out of the wall, with a plastic anchor preventing me from gripping it.<\/p>\n
Vise-Grips were useless. I didn’t know what to do. Finally I remembered…the expensive propane torch one of you numbskulls tempted me into buying. I might be able to melt the anchor, exposing more of the screw, and then maybe I’d be able to get it out with Vise-Grips. And naturally, once I had this idea, I couldn’t find the damn torch. So I got up there and held a Bic lighter up to the screw. And believe it or not, it worked. I was able to grab the screw and back it out, and I replaced it with a better one.<\/p>\n
I’m still mad. Things like this just shouldn’t happen.<\/p>\n
I can’t remember who it was…that person who, knowing I have no willpower, told me I needed a propane torch. But I owe him. Otherwise I’d be out in the garage, sobbing.<\/p>\n
While I was out there I noticed something horrible. A little oil where the T-bird sits. Just enough to be annoying. I hope to God it came out around the oil filter gasket. I can just hear the thief with his name on his shirt now. “That engine’s going to have to come out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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