Thursday, August 12, 2010


Ive got some Oakley x metal julets to fix. They are the massively expensive ones from mission imposable 2


And for some reason who ever designed them desided they shouldn’t have normal screws. The have torx or tourge screws precisely in the T6 screw.


I phone Oakley. On no we don’t supply the screwdrivers. A hardware store or electronics store will sell it.


Great so I have to go buy one just to fix some glasses.


I go into Farnborough hardware and have a bit of a look. Lots of screwdriver sets. But I cant see one with a T6 I can see a T7 and a T8 but no T6. I wait for the woman to stop having an argument about a refund for a scented candle. Then ask

“ ‘scuse me do do you sell T6 torx screwdrivers?”

the woman dose the largest pantomime shrug I have ever seen out side a pantomime and expels air from her mouth with some spit “pppppFFFFtttt”

“look I dunno I just sell stuff…..cant you find one on the self?”

“well no that’s why im asking if you have them”


she starts to look massively inconvenienced “so you can see one on the self?”


“no I cant”


“what about this!” she picks up the first kit she sees and hands it to me.


“no that doesn’t have one it, that’s for wood work mainly”


“whats it for?”


“well it’s a T6 so its used in electrical and some silly makes of glasses”


“is it for a phone?”


“no its not….. but phones probably have them. I can find a T7 and a T8 here but what I need is a T6 do you even know if you sell them?”


“whats it for?”


“well I have a pair of glasses to fix”


“WELL HERE THEN this is what you need” in even more pantomime stile she theatrically picks up a screwdriver kit and pushes it into my hand and looks at me like im a retard.


“ummmm…. This is a kit with a flat head screwdriver in and a glasses hanging cord for round your neck and some spare assorted screws….. its doesn’t contain the screwdriver I want to buy” I put it back on the self


“why are you in here? Take it to an optician”


“I am an optician……DON’T WORRY I’LL GO TO MAPLINS”