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Jul. 15th, 2007 03:06 pmToday, I assembled and installed a new spring-loaded shower caddy. I also cleaned up the mess made when the old suction cup one leapt to its death.
The new shower caddy came complete with the Worst Instructions Ever™. They weren't even bad in a badly translated "do not use for the other use" kind of way, they were bad in a "being completely erroneous" kind of way.
The shower caddy comes with an option to install from the floor to the ceiling (for shower stalls) or from the top of the tub to the ceiling. If you're going with the top of tub to ceiling option (which I was), the instructions say to discard one of the tubes. Although I didn't know it yet, the instructions say to discard the wrong one.
Then the fun begins. I'm told to put a rubber cap on one end of a tube that turns out not to need a rubber cap (you can't screw a tube into the threads with a cap over them). I'm told to insert a little adjustable tube into a larger tube with a spring in it, with a picture clearly showing the little tube being inserted into the wrong end of the big tube. I'm told I have to install the little trays before I screw the whole thing together, but with the instructions having been bassackwards until now, I put them on upside down (these things were not exactly precision tooled either; it took me ages to wrestle them on and off and on again). Then I finally get the thing assembled and take it into the bathroom, which is where I discover the instructions had told me to discard the wrong tube (remember, back at the beginning?), and I have to take the whole thing apart and reassemble it with the right tube.
Worst. Instructions. Ever.
On the plus side, it looks very nice now that it's in, and it holds way more stuff than my old one. The only thing I don't like about it (besides the crappy instructions) is that it doesn't have any hooks to hang my scrub brush from like the old suction cup one did. Oh, well. I can rig something up.
I'd like to find the people who write instruction manuals, make them swap manuals, then watch them try to put something together.
The new shower caddy came complete with the Worst Instructions Ever™. They weren't even bad in a badly translated "do not use for the other use" kind of way, they were bad in a "being completely erroneous" kind of way.
The shower caddy comes with an option to install from the floor to the ceiling (for shower stalls) or from the top of the tub to the ceiling. If you're going with the top of tub to ceiling option (which I was), the instructions say to discard one of the tubes. Although I didn't know it yet, the instructions say to discard the wrong one.
Then the fun begins. I'm told to put a rubber cap on one end of a tube that turns out not to need a rubber cap (you can't screw a tube into the threads with a cap over them). I'm told to insert a little adjustable tube into a larger tube with a spring in it, with a picture clearly showing the little tube being inserted into the wrong end of the big tube. I'm told I have to install the little trays before I screw the whole thing together, but with the instructions having been bassackwards until now, I put them on upside down (these things were not exactly precision tooled either; it took me ages to wrestle them on and off and on again). Then I finally get the thing assembled and take it into the bathroom, which is where I discover the instructions had told me to discard the wrong tube (remember, back at the beginning?), and I have to take the whole thing apart and reassemble it with the right tube.
Worst. Instructions. Ever.
On the plus side, it looks very nice now that it's in, and it holds way more stuff than my old one. The only thing I don't like about it (besides the crappy instructions) is that it doesn't have any hooks to hang my scrub brush from like the old suction cup one did. Oh, well. I can rig something up.
I'd like to find the people who write instruction manuals, make them swap manuals, then watch them try to put something together.
