Fred Basset by Alex Graham for August 22, 2022

No laugh in Fred, just look supportive! Good boy!

That happens to me!!!

Instructions? I don’t need no steenking instructions!

That unfortunately happens more than you think. Just hang in there with Dear. Moral support and all. Perhaps hand him the instructions. Maybe there’s a handy little tip in them.

That is why you build it from the sides.

I see ‘Mr. Dear’ hasn’t quite ‘come to grips’ with "DIY’ ! ! ! !

Welllll … Mr Dear just learned how not to put the shelve unit together ;-)

When my husband & I were first married, we had a friend come over to help us put together some of the furniture we got. Every time the directions said anything like, “Lay Piece [A] next to Piece [B]” or “Use Screw ©” we’d be off in gales of laughter. To this day – 37 years later next week – we talk about all the “laying & screwing” we did.

Bet Mr Dear did not follow instructions

It would help if the shelves were lined up with the holes.

Might the new shelf be the reason for moving the sofa the other day?

The 3 little words that strike fear into the hearts of parents: “Some assembly required”.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/Schiefer-Turm-von-Bremerhaven-Abbau-beginnt,nordmole100.html

I am wondering if the old lighthouse in Bremerhaven will eventually go the same way as Mr. Dears shelf – or if they found some ‘instructions’ how to built it back and refurbish the hole lot?

This is usually NOT a one-person job!

Oh look Mr Dear went to Ikea!!!

Should have braced it while at it.

It seems to be missing its support piece. For cheap bookshelves that tends to be a thin plywood sheet that covers most of the back—it looks unimportant, but it saves the case from collapse.

Love Fred’s reaction in the last panel,

Hubby, the most patient man ever born, and an excellent maintenance mechanic and putter-togetherer, was sent to the brink of insanity with a bookshelf unit I bought. It was a cheap knock-off of an Ikea. The instructions had helpful things like “part A” and “part B”, but none of the parts were actually labeled! By the time he was finished, he was sweating and ready to throw the thing off the balcony. The next bookshelf I bought was already assembled, LOL!

The husband was supposed to turn the screws on the right side. (Righty, tighty; lefty, loosey.)

You can’t blame him. The instructions were probably in Swedish!