Every once in a while, a particular peice of ineptness and\/or cluelessness comes close to pushing me over the edge.<\/p>\n
Today’s story comes from the neighborhood radio shack.<\/p>\n
I decide that I want to give wire-wrapping a try. I mean, what the hell, it’s quicker than soldering and you don’t burn your fingers as much, right? <\/p>\n
So I go down to radio shack and buy some wire wrap and a wire wrap tool. I’ve never wire wrapped anything before in my life, so I look at the instructions on the back of the tool and try to follow them.<\/p>\n
What I end up with is a broken stub of wire and a horrid mess.<\/p>\n
I keep trying, though, and eventually I get to where i can wrap the wire around a pin, but it ends up wrapped around the tool..<\/p>\n
At some point, I start getting a touch, um, suspicious, and instead of reading the directions, I follow common sense and do everything exactly the opposite of what the directions say.. and lo and behold, beautiful wire-wrapped joints result, every time, spin the tool, thank you, drive through.<\/p>\n
THE DIRECTIONS WERE BACKWARDS IN EVERY SINGLE REGARD!<\/p>\n
You do NOT turn the tool clockwise! You do NOT stick the wire in from the back, you stick it in from the frount! <\/p>\n
HOW COULD THEY DO THIS? <\/p>\n
I mean, the directions were written in good english and all, they were just completely, utterly, totally wrong.<\/p>\n
Is this radio shack’s idea of a joke?<\/p>\n
Or do they maybe not want us to build anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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