Day 366, Return of the baffled

What problems might a typical person encounter during a selection of life activities?


There's the usual "I've put it back together and it's working fine, there are just a few bits left over."

There's the eternal "here it is in these 5 boxes, I just don't have the (time|money|inclination|skill) to reassemble it in the way that would do it justice." - Typical of motorcycle 'projects'.

"It's simple to sort out, let me just do this.  Oh, shit!  Well, I can get another one of those bits off of the internet ... HOW MUCH?!"

Then there are the more day to day elements of confusion.  "Where's the search box?"  "Why don't they use a breadcrumb trail for goodness sake."  "What is the point of this if the sort won't work on the relevant type?"

"What on earth made someone think that removing the sound from Pelican crossings and putting the green person of indeterminate sex at hip height so the visual signal would be blocked by standing pedestrians was a good idea?"  This really is dumb-assery of the first water, no visual or audible cue of the status of the crossing - and in most cases they're used where the pedestrian cannot see the traffic lights either.  Designed by a particularly stupid chimp or Jeremy Clarkson, whichever was the dumbest that Tuesday at the planning meeting.

"Is it charged yet?"  "How do I tell?"  "That light changes from red to green."  What use is that for the 8% of the male or 0.5% of the female population?  Just leave it on for many, many hours and guess.

Sometimes it's useful to have someone else assist you if you are baffled and becoming fractious and frustrated.  Someone of calm demeanour and capable of reading instructions.  In which case bafflement may soon be eased, even if they don't know why there are extra bits left over after the keyhole surgery.


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