Over the weekend we took a little jaunt to Jersey; Mrs. Dave had yet another work event. While she was doing her thing at some random hotel in the middle of nowhere, I thought I'd get a little Christmas shopping done, so I headed out to a local mall to brave the crowds.
Once there, I popped into Restoration Hardware to get some stocking-stuffers, and while browsing around, my eyes landed on an auto-loading screwdriver. It was out of its box as an example sitting on top of a pile of cordless screwdrivers. Now, there's a little button on the handle of this thing, which I figured was the power button. I pressed it, and nothing happened. Turned the thing over a few times, didn't see any obvious place for the battery, so I figured it must be inside the handle somehow. There is a clear magazine that pops up and rotates so you can choose which screwdriver bit you want to use (there are three sizes of flathead and three sizes of Philips head bits). Unfortunately, it only pulls out so far, and still, no battery.
Hmm.
Then I spied a little black tab you could press in to disengage the magazine from the rest of the body. Aha! Eureka! Success! I thought. I pressed the tab, pulled the magazine up, and...a noisy clatter all around me as I'm showered with a hail of screwdriver bits that come raining out of the magazine. And then I noticed another pile of boxes NEXT to the cordless screwdriver pile...for the auto-loading screwdriver I'd actually picked up.
I must have stood there for 5 minutes fumbling with the damn thing, trying to get it back together without being noticed by the roaming RH clerks. I finally gave up, shoved the bits back in the magazine, and left the poor thing's carcass sitting there, guts spilling out everywhere, while I purchased a fully-assembled cordless screwdriver and sneaked out back into the mall.
Dad better like this damn thing.
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