B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 12, 2023

RTFM – Read The Appropriate Manual.

wait, marriage comes with a “stupid instructions”? nobody told me that!

Also known as the IKEA syndrome.

“When all else fails, read the instructions.”

Very good advice. Skip reading the stupid instructions! To avoid painful errors, seek out and read ONLY the intelligent instructions.

On recent purchase, would love to have read them but, while the instruction sheet was 8×10, the type was 8 point and the complete instructions covered approximately 4 sq in. Evidently they used the same printers as the ones who print ingredients and usage on food packets and pill bottles.

And the English instructions, not the other languages that the instructions seem to come in…

Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth

The test first….then the lesson.

Been there, done that.

Lesson plan of the school of hard knocks. …and the Marines. OORAH!

I was told once upon a time that I had to turn in my man card because I read the manuals. The same guy who told me that wound up most of a finger in a machine because he didn’t read a manual…I still have all of mine…hmm.

It left off: “… from a hospital bed”.

The same phrase also follows: “hold my beer and watch this”…

I could not read the instructions, they were written in Chinese (I think). So I did it my way! I had a few parts left over? But it works!

Always read the instructions first, and then have them at hand while doing the assembly.

As opposed to the intelligent instructions? d;o)

Whenever I obtain a new product with which I am unfamiliar, I read the manual automatically. ☺

Yup, my nephew alright.

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Sometimes I just look at the pictures in the manual. Sometimes I have to read every word out loud multiple times. Sometimes I don’t need a manual. On a very rare occasion, I ask for help, which I don’t like to do.

The instructions are written in size 2 font and printed on a postage-stamp sized manual.

This is from the school of hard knocks that Tim “The Toolman” Taylor from TV’s" Home Improvement" attended, several times.

Because doing it the hard way is always easier. My family’s motto.

Sometimes the instructions are stupid. Auto-translation from Chinese or Vietnamese to English loses a lot of detail.

Does anyone besides me see how fitting it is that Clumsy Carp should be the one reading about “Learned the Hard Way”?