Pickles by Brian Crane for August 12, 2018

messing with Ingvar Kamprad of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd again, huh?

You REALLY didn’t want her to answer that question, did you?

Some answers are even more obvious than how to put a thousand pieces together just the right way in just the right order.

I don’t buy those kind of shelves. Build my own.

Don’t ever throw away the instructions until you are completely done

I will never understand this obsession with trying to assemble things without reading the instructions!

Dawn breaks over Marblehead.

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.

“Put your mother on a horse…”

My grandpa used to say, “If at first you don’t succeed, read the directions.”

I noticed the garbage can is up to date!

He not only threw out the instructions, he also threw out those handy little Ikea tools which he’s really gonna need.

Why is it that so many men (I don’t mean to stereotype) will never read the instructions nor ask for directions?

An illustration of the time-honored saying: “When all else fails, read the instructions”.

RTFM

Earl, instructions are paper. They go in the blue recycling bin.

He should wait till he is done to do that. Just in case.

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!

Yes!

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…”

I don’t recommend dumpster diving as in the last panel. I cracked two ribs retrieving the Sunday newspaper that way