[Bernard]

Whoa..now the F words are flying..

When the kids were little and I would be in the basement putting together the "some assembly required" Christmas presents, my wife would tell the kids that those were "Daddy Words. They help the little pieces go together better."

[doorgunner69]

” my wife would tell the kids that those were “Daddy Words. They help the little pieces go together better.”

We engineers would call that”screaming at inanimate objects”
It does work, trust me.

[Locomotive Breath]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig 1974) was mostly self-absorbed navel gazing by a guy just out of the mental hospital. But there are a few gems. One was the irony the author experienced when putting together a kid's bicycle from Japan and trying to make sense of the instructions. Here was the first instruction.

Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Aside from the unintended slur on the then shoddy reputation of Japanese products, it does point out that doing a successful assembly requires calm, focus and concentraion, otherwise known as peace of mind. He's not wrong.