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A rant against myself, specifically my extreme manual dexterity ineptitude.
Today I bought a new gas barbecue for us. Some assembly required!! Guide time for assembly, 1.5 hours. How long it took me; 4 hours. This is not a rant about the instructions for assembly, it's purely my inability to see any sense whatsoever in diagrams that others just understand.
The low point was realising about an hour in that I'd put the left and right legs the wrong way round, necessitating a dismantle and rebuild that I hadn't planned for (although, to be honest, given my record, I should have planned for). Of course, once I'd finished, the gas regulator didn't work and I had to replace it (another half hour because getting a gas hose off a regulator is not an easy job, for me at least).
I know I'm spatially challenged, but I always (naively) think it'll be different every time I start something like this.
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