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Oh, please. My recently acquired water filter came with a manual. And I even made an attempt to read it. Or rather I wanted to read it because for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to take the cover off the damn thing. Unfortunately, some brilliant individual placed the manual ... (yeah, I bet you already guessed it and are happily laughing at me) under the above mentioned cover! N. and I spent about five minutes trying to pry the thing open. When we, two engineers!, finally managed to extract the cover, I promptly threw away the manual. Turned out it didn't have the answer to the only question I was interested in by that point: what dumb incompetent idiot designed the cover that would fit flush with the bucket and didn't provide any means of pulling it free.
Oh, please. My recently acquired water filter came with a manual. And I even made an attempt to read it. Or rather I wanted to read it because for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to take the cover off the damn thing. Unfortunately, some brilliant individual placed the manual ... (yeah, I bet you already guessed it and are happily laughing at me) under the above mentioned cover! N. and I spent about five minutes trying to pry the thing open. When we, two engineers!, finally managed to extract the cover, I promptly threw away the manual. Turned out it didn't have the answer to the only question I was interested in by that point: what dumb incompetent idiot designed the cover that would fit flush with the bucket and didn't provide any means of pulling it free.
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