I just bought a desk at Target. I needed something not special, but not complete crap. It’s actually a nice looking desk. I bought the matching bookcase as well. Between the desk and the bookshelf, there were about 32 screws.
Each and every single freaking one required the use of an Allen wrench. My fingers are killing me! I hate Allen wrenches. If I ever meet Allen, I’m going to give him a piece of my mind!
I am CONVINCED that Allen wrenches were thought up by some guy (presumably named Allen, because a female would A) never make a tool so annoying, and B) wouldn’t name a tool after herself) who was a carpenter and figured out that if a tool and subsequent hardware were so difficult and annoying, that people would continue to use carpenters to make custom furniture so they wouldn’t have to use the tiny, itty bitty L shaped wrench. It worked for me.
Allen wrenches are the sole reason that I will not buy anything from IKEA. I have a friend who bought her kitchen cabinets there…they had to assemble an entire kitchen with an Allen wrench.
WHY hasn’t someone invented an electric Allen wrench???
There IS an electric Allen wrench. The whole point of this conspiracy is to make people buy them.
I’d pay a lot…
There IS an electric allen wrench?
You can get six-sided bits for your power drill or battery-powered screwdriver (a smaller, lower-power drill) to go along with regular and Phillips screwdriver bits. And I actually have two entire sets of Allen wrenches, in neat little “Swiss-army style” kits – you fold out which size you need. Yes – I really AM that diseased. (I could also go into Torx heads, but I sense my life would be in danger if I did….)
Whatever saves my fingers…ramble on No-hio!!!
I just figured if I mentioned “screwdriver” again, it would have to involve vodka and orange juice. Or vodka and Milk of Magnesia – a Phillips screwdriver….
I think they use Allen wrench screws so people don’t strip them, then return the entire product. They still suck because you can never find the right size for the screw you have.
They hurt my fingers…I hate Allen