Alan Key Misfit

This morning I wanted to disassemble a garden hammock before leaving the farmhouse and returning back to Yambol town. Everything was going well. taking it nice and slow, no mistakes or cut hands, already shredded up from yesterday's bad luck.

It came to the main frame which was bolted together. I merrily got the tool box out of the car boot, remembering not to lock my key in there today. This is when the task went pear shaped.

To unscrew the bolts the tools needed was a size 12 spanner and an alan key. Initially I tried just using the spanner on the nut but the alan style bolt just turned around with it, An alan key was needed, I felt the luck was turning.

In the tool box there were around 20-25 different sized alan key of all sizes. I guessed the size needed after the 4th or 5th guess the stress was rising and got even higher after all sensible guesses to size were used up. At this point taking other sizes was just going through the motions, there was no way on earth any of the other would fit.

So 20-25 alan keys and not one fitted the screw! By the way my house guests fitted this up so they must have used their own tools!

The hammock will remain assembled in the garden, it won't get stolen as there isn't any crime here in Skalitsa anyway, I suppose that a bit of good luck in the end.