Sometimes Reading the Instructions Works...

Morning Michael,

Just between us fellas, the solution of last resort usually works just fine.

Oh, is this a good time to bring up the male allergy to MAPS? ~ Evelyn

At least you were able to get your's going again.  My husband decided to clean the inside of our large dinning room window so he brought in a old wooden step latter. Now I said to him this later is rotten so don't even try it. Or course he did as he steped on the first rung of the later it creaked so he went up one again a sound of wood cracking by this time he is half way up and yes all of the steps of the later break into so at this point he has no where to go but down and when he went he landed aganist the grandfather clock which caused the one of the large weights to fall and it went thru the bottom of the clock.  It does not work anymore and the motto of this is he should have followed my instructions and not climbed up the rotten later.  HaHaHa

See... now I'm wondering what I married because he won't let me touch anything before reading the instructions!

Michael, instructions are good....I am a reverse engineering type. The problem is it ends up taking more time to not do it with the instruction booklet open than closed. Kind of like asking for directions when we are lost......DUH!

Bo

Michael back in the 70's there was a sliding door company that right at the top of the instruction booklet it said, "If all else fails, follow the instructions." (I kid you not:)

Instructions?  What the heck is that?  Just listening to that word hurts, it must be some sort of profanity.  There are 3 sets of 4 letters making 12 letters in all, that is like 3 times a four letter word.  No wonder it hurts so much to hear or read that word.  Let's not talk about it again, ok.  When all else fails call Fred (some guy none of us know but watched on TV as kids...he has a pet dinosaur, and is our great example)

Funny story Michael. It is soooo darn embarrasing to have to resort to reading instructions.

Sean Allen

Michael, as a girl married to a guy who hates to read or ask for instructions, I see him tinkering too. Glad you were able to get 'ol Pop up and running again.

Michael, your actions (both the reading of the directions, AND the ADMITTANCE of it) have damaged the reputation of men everywhere, and you should be ashamed! I refer you to rule #86 of the Male Handbook, which requires us to throw out the instruction manuals of all mechanical and/or electrical devices that we purchase, immediately upon delivery.  Instructions are as unnecessary as the little packet of silicon that came packaged with the product. 

But then again, how would you know about Rule #86, since  I doubt you even read the handbook in the first place....and for that reason you are forgiven. 

PS - To Evelyn...map reading is OK now, so long as we use a GPS...because if it plugs in, it no longer classifies as a map, but moves immediatley into the category of "Electronic Gadget", thereby nullifying any stigmatism of being a directional aide...

NP Michael...love your blogs...thanks for putting the "Active" in ActiveRain.

Believe it or not Michael.... it's my hubby reading the instructions. I'm apt to skip them and it bugs the daylights out of him.

I read just enough to get the thing working and only revert to them again if needed or someone is able to do something with there "thing" that I didn't know that mine could do all the while!!