Ignoring InstructionsWhen I was small, a friend of mine waved a big plastic bottle at me and asked me if I "wanted some drinking yoghurt?" I pointed out the "do not drink" label, but no, he was convinced this was a big jug of a particularly strange, liquid yoghurt that was briefly popular in the 70s.
He was sick for hours, after consuming a suprisingly large quantity of washing liquid.
What instructions have you ignored?
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chthonic, Thu 4 May 2006, 11:24)
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Haynes SchmaynesHaynes manuals are pretty good at understating the complexity of some critical procedures - when they use teh word "simply" in an instruction, it's probably best to retrace your steps, put it all back together, and pay someone to do it for you.
Dismantling my bike engine (yzf750 - woo) on a workmate in the living room, we came to the bit where we needed to remove the clutch basket. This (for those who don't know) spins freely around it's fastening, so is a pig to remove. "Simply fashion a tool..." began the instructions in the manual - sod that, stuff it with sockets til it jams. Worked a treat, as did using a stepladder as an extension bar. Couldn't get the bugger back together again though. Sort of funnier if you were there.
No apologies for anything, cos its my first post and I had to wait a week! Fair bursting at the seams!!
(, Tue 9 May 2006, 13:15, Reply)
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