A minor complaint about a thing I just mended — a “fancy” and “heavy duty” wooden coathanger. It is the kind of wooden hanger with a wooden dowel that goes crossways, meant for pants to hang on.
Considering that it is meant to hold weight, why would you design the dowel part to fasten to the arms of the hanger via very thin, pin-sized nails that go straight up? Even if the pin were cross-ways, sunk from the arm into the dowel, the weight would at least then stress the metal itself rather than the uncertain grip of soft wood onto the slippery sides of a glorified thumbtack.
A minor annoyance but seriously why?! I hate badly designed things and how we are just primed to throw them away. Which I refuse to do.
I have fixed it for now with wood glue and rubber bands to clamp it, but might try adding a couple of very thin cross-nails if I can find one in the basement.
While I’m complaining, I’ll just add that I injured all the small toes on my right foot a few weeks ago, it’s not healed yet, but then yesterday I stepped on a 3/4 inch long thorn (on an old bougainvillea branch clipping) and had to go get a tetanus shot. They also gave me antibiotics which when I got home I realized were the specific kind linked with ankle tendinitis/tendinopathy. So no. I will wait and see if the giant lump on the bottom of my foot will just get better. I suspect the reaction there is less from infection and more from an allergic reaction since every time that plant scratches my arms during pruning I get a raised lump.
Meanwhile, I am headachy, sleepy, and exhausted from the TDaP and I can’t put my weight onto either foot properly, or wear shoes. I slept through two meetings. When I got up and decided to hang up the laundry on my “chairdrobe” like a responsible adult, the pants hanger broke.
In short –– I will be returning to bed for a long sulk and maybe a nap.