The Allen Key

[whiskeyjack]

Don't ask about this part but a million years ago when Roy and I were married we rode our bicycles to the courthouse. When I passed through security I dropped an allen-wrench (to adjust the bike) into the bucket

Comments

[clifty_man]

*grinning*

[xerhino]

I remember trying to keep from calling them hex wrenches because the guard, not the brightest guy in the world, might not know that "hex" means 6 and would assume they were for witchcraft.

[captain_slinky]

I'll bet he STILL thinks it was part of some Commie plot to take over the courthouse...

[xerhino]

"That looks like a star, like on the commie flag."
"No, the Soviet flag has a 5 pointed star, this has 6 points."
"The extra point represents the sickle. I'm on to your secret commie code."

hex < non

[xerhino]

I tried to bring in a 9 sided wrench and had worse problems.
"What's that."
"It's a nonwrench."
"Well if it's not a wrench what is it?"
"I told you it's a nonwrench."
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