"Darn it! If only I'd realized we'd be passing the hardware store today..."
"Why?"
"Because I need a small metric screw."
"What, I'm not good enough for you?"
"You're standard."
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Can you really get only one of any type of screw at HD? I thought that they came in metric dozens (10-packs).
Posted by: Christy P. | 29 December 2009 at 10:55 AM
If he'd asked for a metric dozen metric screws I suppose I'd have had to have made a different joke.
Posted by: bearing | 29 December 2009 at 11:59 AM
At HD, you can get many of the less common screws in threesomes in the little boxes just past themain display of nuts/bolts. Thats where they stock the odd parts (e-clips, cotter pins, stainless parts, etc)
Posted by: Mark | 03 January 2010 at 01:56 PM
hee hee
Posted by: the Mom | 07 January 2010 at 11:17 AM