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07/17/2004 Archived Entry: "troublesome swing"

Well, I got the swing yesterday. We get home and I was showing Chris and we realized that it doesn't come with screws because they want you to buy some that are right for whatever you are attaching it to. It made a lot of sense, so we didn't complain. Today, Chris went to True Value and bought really long, thick screws. Unfortunately he bought flatheads instead of phillips. Also unfortunately, the wood we are screwing the anchors into is really dense. Which is good because they aren't going to loosen and come out, but it's very difficult to screw flatheads up over your head. We tried using our drill with a screwdriver bit, but that didn't work as it was too fast. So we borrowed an electric screwdriver and all we succeeded in doing was strip the head of the screw. Of course, this occured at approx. 5:01 and True Value closes at 5:00. So we had to put the project on hold until tomorrow at which time we will go back to the hardware store and get phillips' head screws. And that better work, darnit! Thankfully I never told Tabitha I bought a swing, so she hasn't been nagging us to get it done, lol.