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Boy, don't I feel like an idiot...
Mar. 23rd, 2008 05:32 pmSo yesterday, I discovered that I didn't have a Robertson screwdriver and so couldn't replace my mop head in order to clean my kitchen and dining room. I measured the screws, and it seemed that I needed one with a head one eighth of an inch wide. No problem, I figured. Surely I'll be able to find one today.
Around 1:30, I got on the subway and rode down to St. Clair, where there's a Home Hardware (the same one I went to yesterday to buy the hardwood cleaner and CLR), but it was closed today. Okay, so I misremembered - I'd thought their sign said that they would be open today. So back on the subway I got to ride down to Dundas. Surely the Canadian Tire there would be open, since the area around the Eaton Centre is considered a tourist area and so everything is usually open on holidays. Nope, they were closed too. So down Yonge Street I walked, all the way to Front and back up to College. Along the way, I stopped in every single store I saw that I thought might carry what I needed, but either a) they didn't sell them, or b) they sold them, but the wrong size.
At this point, I remembered that there's a hardware store somewhere in the Church/Wellesley area, so I walked over to Church Street. I popped into the Timothy's Coffee at Church and Maitland and asked, but they said that it was closed today.
By this point, I was getting a little tired. So I figured I would give up for today and walk over to Wellesley station and come home. On the way I spotted a dollar store on the NE corner of Church and Wellesley, so I thought I'd give it one last try.
Success! A few minutes later, I had in my possession a one-eight-inch Robertson screwdriver. I got on the subway and came home...
Whereupon I discovered that I must have mismeasured the screw, and the screwdriver I'd bought was too big. I probably should have gotten a 3/16" one... which would have seen me getting home two hours earlier.
Three and a half hours for nothing. *headdesk*
Maybe it's just as well. After all that, I'm too tired to do housework anyway.
At least I got my exercise for theday week month. Mapquest says all that walking was just under two miles, but it felt like a heck of a lot more.
Around 1:30, I got on the subway and rode down to St. Clair, where there's a Home Hardware (the same one I went to yesterday to buy the hardwood cleaner and CLR), but it was closed today. Okay, so I misremembered - I'd thought their sign said that they would be open today. So back on the subway I got to ride down to Dundas. Surely the Canadian Tire there would be open, since the area around the Eaton Centre is considered a tourist area and so everything is usually open on holidays. Nope, they were closed too. So down Yonge Street I walked, all the way to Front and back up to College. Along the way, I stopped in every single store I saw that I thought might carry what I needed, but either a) they didn't sell them, or b) they sold them, but the wrong size.
At this point, I remembered that there's a hardware store somewhere in the Church/Wellesley area, so I walked over to Church Street. I popped into the Timothy's Coffee at Church and Maitland and asked, but they said that it was closed today.
By this point, I was getting a little tired. So I figured I would give up for today and walk over to Wellesley station and come home. On the way I spotted a dollar store on the NE corner of Church and Wellesley, so I thought I'd give it one last try.
Success! A few minutes later, I had in my possession a one-eight-inch Robertson screwdriver. I got on the subway and came home...
Whereupon I discovered that I must have mismeasured the screw, and the screwdriver I'd bought was too big. I probably should have gotten a 3/16" one... which would have seen me getting home two hours earlier.
Three and a half hours for nothing. *headdesk*
Maybe it's just as well. After all that, I'm too tired to do housework anyway.
At least I got my exercise for the
