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.
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.
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.
pschearer Premium Member about 1 year ago
RTFM – Read The Appropriate Manual.
seanfear about 1 year ago
wait, marriage comes with a “stupid instructions”? nobody told me that!
Imagine about 1 year ago
Also known as the IKEA syndrome.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 1 year ago
“When all else fails, read the instructions.”
dcdete. about 1 year ago
Very good advice. Skip reading the stupid instructions! To avoid painful errors, seek out and read ONLY the intelligent instructions.
sandpiper about 1 year ago
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.
jagedlo about 1 year ago
And the English instructions, not the other languages that the instructions seem to come in…
krs27 about 1 year ago
Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth
rockyridge1977 about 1 year ago
The test first….then the lesson.
JohnCL about 1 year ago
Been there, done that.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Lesson plan of the school of hard knocks. …and the Marines. OORAH!
Just-me about 1 year ago
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.
Dobie Premium Member about 1 year ago
It left off: “… from a hospital bed”.
The same phrase also follows: “hold my beer and watch this”…
blakerl about 1 year ago
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!
ladykat about 1 year ago
Always read the instructions first, and then have them at hand while doing the assembly.
JPuzzleWhiz about 1 year ago
As opposed to the intelligent instructions? d;o)
Ebenezer Stooge Premium Member about 1 year ago
Whenever I obtain a new product with which I am unfamiliar, I read the manual automatically. ☺
Dkram about 1 year ago
Yup, my nephew alright.
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Moonkey Premium Member about 1 year ago
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.
zeexenon about 1 year ago
The instructions are written in size 2 font and printed on a postage-stamp sized manual.
Angry Indeed Premium Member about 1 year ago
This is from the school of hard knocks that Tim “The Toolman” Taylor from TV’s" Home Improvement" attended, several times.
crazeekatlady about 1 year ago
Because doing it the hard way is always easier. My family’s motto.
eddi-TBH about 1 year ago
Sometimes the instructions are stupid. Auto-translation from Chinese or Vietnamese to English loses a lot of detail.
JPuzzleWhiz about 1 year ago
Does anyone besides me see how fitting it is that Clumsy Carp should be the one reading about “Learned the Hard Way”?