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robcorneliusI would like to propose a new rule for life.
"Each item of flat pack furniture that an individual assembles is more badly designed, needlessly complicated and more difficult to assemble than the previous item the assembled."
I spent most of the morning assembling 2 garden chairs. The actual process involved dropping every single screw, nut, bolt and washer at least 3 times, cutting myself, discovering I had assembled a subsection back to front then taking it apart then putting it back together back to front all over again TWICE, hitting things out of frustration and lots and lots of swearing.
Two separate sub-section on each chair I was assembling this morning required me to align a "nut", a bracket, a washer, a piece of wood with a hole drilled in it, another washer, another part of the bracket, and a "bolt". The "bolt" didn't go all the way through the whole assembly as the "nut" was one of those fasteners that look like a bolt but have an internal female thread to accept the male bolts thread. That meant I had to align the "nut" plus its washer and the "bolt" plus washer independently only to discover that the threads were not engaging when I turned the fucking allen key a few times. I would run out of fingers trying to keep things aligned before doing up the whole sorry mess. I seriously thought about holding the long end of the fucking allen key in my teeth more than once.
I fucking hate allen keys with a passion. There is no reason for their existence. What is so wrong with conventional nuts and bolts anyway? Oh yes... allen keys are cheaper to make than spanners.
I bet the people who design this shite give themselves a little pat on the back when they create a way of assembling something that is almost impossible for anyone to achieve. These bastards probably get a little sexual thrill when they put "requires minimal assembly" on the instructions that you have to download as the fuckers are too cheap to print 5 sheets of A4 themselves.
There is no court in the land that would convict me of the crimes I would commit if I ever meet one of these sadistic motherfuckers. My defense would be to open a big card board box of flat pack furniture, hold up a fucking allen key and the piece of paper with a QR code on it that says download instructions.
#FlatPackFurniture #SelfAssembly #ShittyDesign #FuckAllenKeys
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