Men and Instructions

**Nana2two** · 07-30-2009, 09:27 PM

Hubby drove me bonkers, we are tring to put a crib together that we got free off craigs list is a sleigh bed style, i looked the model number up to make sure it was not on recall. Im telling hun you are putting the bottem rails on wrong, He insested he was right. Ok so i waited to he was done, HE PUT THEM ON WRONG.. oh my gosh. he was mad becuase he had to take them off and switch them. Just why will they not listen.I can ring is neck.

**jamie79** · 07-30-2009, 10:37 PM

Because there are 3 things real men can not say
I'm wrong
I'm lost
I can't fix it

This is a magnet on my fridge. LOL

**fixer** · 07-30-2009, 10:45 PM

Having learned the hard way, I always read and follow instructions. By the way, I can fix anything. It just sometimes takes me awhile to get around to it.

**mamamia** · 07-31-2009, 01:40 AM

Would you believe me if I told you that I knew exactly where this post was headed by just reading the subject line? ...LOL

Need I say more? HA!

Theresa

**madhen** · 07-31-2009, 02:12 AM

I have to confess that I'm horrible about actually following instructions re: assembly and use. I just "eyeball" it and figure out what goes where or what switch controls which action. This often gets me into trouble, but it came in handy once when I ordered a large flight cage, and the instructions were all in Chinese! I did put a few things on backwards and upside-down, and many screws were tightened, only to be removed, replaced, re-tightened in correct configurations. But that cage got built!

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 07-31-2009, 02:13 AM

To crib a line from a famous movie: "Instructions? We don't need no steenking instructions!!!!!"

**frugalfranny** · 07-31-2009, 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by jamie79

Because there are 3 things real men can not say
I'm wrong
I'm lost
I can't fix it

This is a magnet on my fridge. LOL

I TOTALLY AGREE! And I would add one to go with number 2.......let's stop and ask directions!!!!!!!

**frugalwarrior** · 07-31-2009, 05:55 AM

I can't even politely go there but somewhere in my home 2999 manuals are waiting for me to find them. My DH has "put" them "somewhere". Wait. wait a minute. Nope I just set that down????

**Karen1** · 07-31-2009, 08:06 AM

LOL---they never listen let alone read instructions.

mostly.

but for me I am lucky. Tony does read instructions. If anything, he drives me nuts in reverse. He reads each step, gets the recommended tools to construct it, puts all the pieces in a perfect line etc. and goes SO SLOW when building something. I would be 50 steps ahead of him in a heartbeat if I was building it..HA HA--while cooking dinner and folding laundry at the same time...LOL

so I walk away. he finishes in his time at his pace and he always does a fab job.

I guess it comes down to MEN do one thing at a time.....women can do 50 things at a time and get them all done fine.

**nuisance26** · 07-31-2009, 08:53 AM

~Ha-ha! My dh did that with our crib too! Maybe the directions are wrong! PPPpppfffft!

Or maybe he should have taken more than a cursory glance at them before he 'figured' out how to build it.~

**knotme** · 07-31-2009, 09:01 AM

Because it is a man thing...... I learned long ago when I ask my DH how long something will take to do, to multiply his answer by at least 3 sometimes 4 to get a more accurate account of time. Never asks for directions. Gets us lost all the time and then says..... I thought this road would end up here.....

**2ndGenGranola** · 07-31-2009, 11:15 AM

Let me say that I love Facebook. The internet has solved that problem in our house. It was just 1 posting of 1 of his projects where he didn't read the instructions and expected me to "live with it". If I'm living with it, I'm posting pics of it. After some heavy duty ribbing from the guys, we now follow instructions AND lay the parts out in an identifyable order BEFORE the project is started.

**KeithBC** · 07-31-2009, 04:14 PM

You know what they say: if all else fails, read the instructions.

Someone who insisted on following instructions would have had a hard time with the storm door that I assembled a few weeks ago. The instructions were there, but made little sense. The parts required in the instructions didn't match the parts list, and neither the instructions nor the parts list matched the pieces supplied. It's only because we men are good at assembling stuff without instructions that things like this get assembled at all.

**mzpepper** · 07-31-2009, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by knotme

Because it is a man thing...... I learned long ago when I ask my DH how long something will take to do, to multiply his answer by at least 3 sometimes 4 to get a more accurate account of time. Never asks for directions. Gets us lost all the time and then says..... I thought this road would end up here.....

I call that football time. The clock says 2 minutes and 15 minutes later they are still playing.