Saturday, December 22, 2007

Maybe there should be a test.

I started assembling Baby Stuff this afternoon, and one of the first things I decided to tackle was the bouncy seat that were we given. I briefly misplaced the packet with the screws and small parts, but once I found it assembly was simple and quick. The last step was the simplest. All it entailed was snapping the optional "accessory bar" into place. The instructions were only this long:

"Fit the toy bar ends into the sockets in the footrest."

Can't get any simpler than that, right? BUT. The there was a "hint" under the instructions:

"Hint: The square end of the toy bar fits into the square socket and the circular end of the toy bar fits into the circular socket."

I feel like if you need this hint you a) probably can't use a screwdriver, so you probably haven't gotten this far in the instructions, and b) probably shouldn't be in charge of an infant. Square fits square and round fits round? REALLY?! I had no idea.

I may also be slightly cranky.

6 comments:

Vika said...

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy?

If you haven't you may not want to. It's terribly depressing, but it does explain the type of people who would need that instruction. STM and I watched *part* of it one day, bu couldn't bring ourselves to watch the whole movie.

Sigh.

Kate said...

I did watch it. It's a *joke*, based on this sort of thing. :)

Grendel said...

It's a joke? I thought it was documentary. . .

Vika said...

Pardon - apparently the dry sarcasm didn't read well via internet ;)

Witty said...

I'm with Grendel on this one...

College Glassblower said...

you people are weird... but on the instructions, i go to COLLEGE with people who need that instruction... it's pathetic, really...