These days the instructions that come with most stuff are next to useless. Not a single word on the entire sheet and drawings that leave out a lot of steps.
If it were IKEA furniture, the instructions won’t help. However, at least with their furniture, you get to use your “vocabulary enhancers” and learn new ones, too!
I tried to assemble the chair I’m sitting in without reading the instructions. I soon realized they’d left the legs out of the box. Took it back to IKEA where they took out the instructions and showed me the first line: “Legs for this item are stored in a pouch inside the chair back…”
Templo S.U.D. about 6 years ago
messing with Ingvar Kamprad of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd again, huh?
jagedlo about 6 years ago
You REALLY didn’t want her to answer that question, did you?
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 6 years ago
Some answers are even more obvious than how to put a thousand pieces together just the right way in just the right order.
Yakety Sax about 6 years ago
I don’t buy those kind of shelves. Build my own.
Jaw Jacker about 6 years ago
Don’t ever throw away the instructions until you are completely done
jpayne4040 about 6 years ago
I will never understand this obsession with trying to assemble things without reading the instructions!
Subguy322 about 6 years ago
Dawn breaks over Marblehead.
Iron Pounder about 6 years ago
These days the instructions that come with most stuff are next to useless. Not a single word on the entire sheet and drawings that leave out a lot of steps.
enigmamz about 6 years ago
“Put your mother on a horse…”
sbferg about 6 years ago
My grandpa used to say, “If at first you don’t succeed, read the directions.”
Stewb32 Premium Member about 6 years ago
I noticed the garbage can is up to date!
Diat60 about 6 years ago
He not only threw out the instructions, he also threw out those handy little Ikea tools which he’s really gonna need.
Flossie Mud Duck about 6 years ago
Why is it that so many men (I don’t mean to stereotype) will never read the instructions nor ask for directions?
codedaddy about 6 years ago
An illustration of the time-honored saying: “When all else fails, read the instructions”.
jslabotnik about 6 years ago
RTFM
Michael Scott Premium Member about 6 years ago
Earl, instructions are paper. They go in the blue recycling bin.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
He should wait till he is done to do that. Just in case.
Obi-Haiv about 6 years ago
If it were IKEA furniture, the instructions won’t help. However, at least with their furniture, you get to use your “vocabulary enhancers” and learn new ones, too!
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member about 6 years ago
Yes!
JP Steve Premium Member about 6 years ago
I tried to assemble the chair I’m sitting in without reading the instructions. I soon realized they’d left the legs out of the box. Took it back to IKEA where they took out the instructions and showed me the first line: “Legs for this item are stored in a pouch inside the chair back…”
codedaddy about 6 years ago
I don’t recommend dumpster diving as in the last panel. I cracked two ribs retrieving the Sunday newspaper that way