“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood took to Twitter last night to ask for some help with a screwdriver. Umm…
OK tool people: It's a matter of the De Walt ordinary extendable screwdriver — not the power one. Why has part of it disappeared into its handle and how do I open that? (No jokes please)
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
How can WE NOT joke about this?
The author of The Handmaid’s Tale asking for help with tools and begging for people not to joke about it is just too much to ask of us. https://t.co/RBe5cqdYh6
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 12, 2018
Because IT IS hilarious:
This is literally how The Handmaid's Tale started https://t.co/q1RwkBn5Qr
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) September 12, 2018
Maybe it’s some crazy dystopian future screwdriver where only the men are allowed such things?
Guess it was a dystopian screw driver not really ordinary extendable. Hate when that happens…
— Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) September 12, 2018
No, just a regular screwdriver. The “yellow and black” kind:
Mine is def. yellow and black. New one, a gift. Guess I will have to seek out an instruction manual… This twists this way and that, but no Open Sesame so far.
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
LOL:
I guess no handmaids work at Home Depot or have access to the internet?
— Ralph (@Ralph29418185) September 12, 2018
She’s making progress!
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Tx. I got the thingy out. It's the other thingy inside the handle that is the metaphysical conundrum here.
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
And help is there if she asks for it:
Find a man to help you https://t.co/GiLXl97bsv
— Quotron (@Quotron_) September 12, 2018
Or not:
Don't be silly. Men abandoned non-power screwdrivers in approx. 1972.
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
More progress! She’s got the “thingy” out:
Tx. I got the thingy out. It's the other thingy inside the handle that is the metaphysical conundrum here.
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
And she offered up this warning to what ladies can do when pushed to far, in the present or in some dystopian future:
Old ladies with potentially lethal tools are always cute. "Ooops oh sorry was that your jugular vein? Where did I put my specs?"
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 12, 2018
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