• "@#$!@#-ing pot rack"

Review excerpt:

My girlfriend shops for stuff on the Internet. She sends me links in email and instant messenger of the stuff she is looking at every day. Every now and then, I "surprise" her by buying something she sent me a link to. This week, it was this hanging pot rack. When it arrived in the mail, unable to keep the secret, I told her I was going to put it up that night. She pretended to be surprised, as usual. Anyway, that afternoon she told me that she had read the reviews here, and that the screws that came with it might not be long enough. I said something like "well, if I need to get extra screws, I will", and thought nothing more of it. Sigh. If only I had listened. So Thursday night after work, I unpacked the pot rack and attacked the wall with a stud finder and a pencil. That's when things started to go wrong. The walls in my house are made of thick plaster. After hours of trying to figure out the best way to hold the stud finder to get any reaction out of it, I finally realized that it wasn't going to be that easy. So, I resorted to the "guess, and drill holes till you find one, then measure" method. I got four holes in before I found the first stud. Thank goodness the studs were actually 16 inches apart.

After finding the studs and drilling three holes. I was ready to hang the Tar Baby....I mean pot rack. In go the 1 1/4" screws...one...two...and the pot rack rips right out of the wall. @#$#$. Fine, then. I'll finish tomorrow, and I'll get some longer screws. I stopped on the way home and bought screws. x`I bought 3.5 inch screws. Why I thought I needed 3.5 inch screws, I don't know. Perhaps I was angry and the wall, and wanted to make sure that it would really hurt when I screwed it. A grudge-screwing, as it were. The wall, however, still had the upper hand. I bottomed out the screws,stripping two of them and breaking four of them off in the wall. Finally, after way too many hours (5 screws, folks...that's all it was), sweat, and red-faced, vein-popping anger, I got the dam thing in. There are four visible holes near the far right stud, and some of the 3.5 inch screws are in at weird angles to get them around the ones I broke off in the wall. At least one of them is stripped so badly that it will have to be broken off or drilled out eventually. Whenever we move out of this place, the pot rack is staying.

(4 Stars)

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