Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for December 28, 2017

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Don’t bother, they never make any sense.

Be prepared for your ‘junior year abroad’ studies

I’ve read manuals written in “Chinglish” but I’d rather have that than those that use cryptographic icons to show you what to do. I have written a couple of manufacturers to explain to them where their assembly instructions are wrong.

For those that do publish instructions in various languages: for every inch of English text, there is 0.75 inches of German, 1.25 inches of French and 3.5 inches of Spanish. It’d not fair to compare Chinese since that sort of runs north-south anyway.

I build my own furniture from scratch using plans. I was building a drysink from plans in my woodworking magazine. I get the the doors only to find the plans were wrong. I had to rework the door part to get doors to work. As for kits like this, I look at the pictures. Works out fairly well.

Wife will remind you components are packed in plastic bags that could present a suffocation hazard.

directions are written by people that NEVER assembled anything. they are writers..not assemblers.

Whoa. Take a deep breath first.

What the adventure in that. Who knows, you may come up with something entirely different than what you bought.

Turn in you man card.