| Mike Pirtle: Gets rather complicated 'Hammerhead' for Christmas |
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By: MIKE PIRTLE, Post Publisher
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Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010 7:57 am
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With another lackluster BCS bowl on TV on a cold January evening last week, I took a break from office paperwork to check out my Christmas toy, an auto-hammer that pounds nails in all by itself.
Pretty cool.
Now, I can hammer in a nail. Well, in two or three tries anyway.
As most guys who do things around the house will tell you, there are times when you just don’t have space to swing a hammer, or when it is really necessary to hit precisely with no room for error.
When I saw the Craftsman Hammerhead advertised on the tube during an entertaining non-BCS bowl game, I remembered the family had been hounding me for Christmas gift ideas and the little light bulb in a balloon went on over my head.
And, sure enough, Santa delivered.
A while back I learned any new tool or appliance with an instruction manual should be addressed prior to needing to use it if you are an impatient type like me. Hurried instruction review leads to errors in operation, damage and/or injury.
So I determined to learn all I needed to know about my nifty new hammer.
After figuring out, of course, which side of the manual had the English version of the instructions.
I wanted to know how to charge the thing and how to hammer a nail with it.
But, first I had to be instructed to always wear eye protection.
And, not to force electrical plugs into sockets that don’t fit.
The proper use of electrical cords and not to use “inside” cords for “outside” tasks.
And to be careful on ladders and rooftops.
Remember not to spit into the wind.
And eat your vegetables or no dessert.
OK, I added those last two. But, why not?
I wanted to know how to work the tool, not how to avoid being on the next episode of “ER” or “Hey, ya’ll, watch this.”
After nine pages of “don’ts” and one page showing the various parts, I finally found the actual instructions for the new tool.
All three pages of them, including at least half of that space taken up by more reminders on the nature of don’t heat the battery pack up or it will explode, don’t use in water and don’t run with scissors.
In summary 16 pages of the manual were divided into two display pages, 11.5 in don’ts and 1.5 in instructions, leading to the observations of:
1) Lots of dummies out there warranting all those warnings.
2) Too many B. Durhams to represent them.
Ya gotta love America, home of the free to sue for just about anything. |
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