All you home handy people out there, I need some advice.

How on earth can I install a towel rod in my bathroom that won’t succumb to Cheetah Boy disease?

I’ve owned this suburban tract house for more than 20 years now, and I’ve never been able to keep a towel rack in the main bathroom for more than a few weeks.

This is the process: I go to the home improvement store, I buy the cheapest towel rack I can find ( because I know its fate ), and I bring it home.

Then, I call my handyman, Chris, and ask him to come and install it for me.

I know, I know, you’re thinking to yourself, “Really, Marla? How hard is it to install a towel rack? A couple of screws and you’re done.”

But you don’t understand. Power tools and I don’t get along. I bought my first house in 1999, and I learned in nanos

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