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    pschearer Premium Member about 1 year ago

    RTFM – Read The Appropriate Manual.

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    seanfear  about 1 year ago

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

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    Imagine  about 1 year ago

    Also known as the IKEA syndrome.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 1 year ago

    “When all else fails, read the instructions.”

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    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.

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    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.

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    jagedlo  about 1 year ago

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

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    krs27  about 1 year ago

    Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth

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    rockyridge1977  about 1 year ago

    The test first….then the lesson.

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    JohnCL  about 1 year ago

    Been there, done that.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago

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

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    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.

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    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”…

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    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!

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    ladykat  about 1 year ago

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

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    JPuzzleWhiz  about 1 year ago

    As opposed to the intelligent instructions? d;o)

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    Ebenezer Stooge Premium Member about 1 year ago

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

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    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.

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    zeexenon  about 1 year ago

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

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    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.

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    crazeekatlady  about 1 year ago

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

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    eddi-TBH  about 1 year ago

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

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    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”?

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