Well it’s no secret that I’m usually the man of the house (such is the burden of living in a household where people are either lazy, incompetent, or hardly ever home XD) but last night I encountered an issue that I think deserves a rant.

I’ve never had a problem constructing furniture before, so I didn’t think twice about undertaking the task of building this very simple book case you see before you. In theory, you should be provided with enough wooden boards, with ready-made screw holes, and all you have to do is screw them in. Well, that’s the /THEORY/. Not one of the screw holes in this book case was aligned properly. That’s right, not a single solitary one. So you can imagine the fun I had forcing 1.5” screws into solid blocks of wood, aided with nothing but a screwdriver (and each shelf requires 8 screws) So not only was this painful after a while, but it was also tedious, as I had to keep tightening each screw a little and then moving on, to make sure I didn’t accidentally warp the wood. So here I am consuming my millionth cup of coffee, not having slept in 38 hours, sporting a variety of rather unpleasant injuries. (Before you ask, I didn’t spend /all/ 38 hours building the book case, I just thought it would be clever to start it at 4am, thinking it would only take 10minutes. By the time I was ready to go to bed, I had to be up again~ -_-)

So here’s the offending hand. Several tender bruises (in various trendy shades of black and red) a blister on my palm which makes driving very unpleasant, and a 10 x 3mm chunk of skin missing from my index finger. The latter of which I don’t mind so much, as it gives me an excuse to wear one of the cool piratey plasters Trebius bought me. (Thanks again for those ^_~)

There’s a lesson to be learnt from all this; Never buy cheap flat packed furniture. (Or at least, get someone else to build it for you) Are you busy on Friday, Bob?