Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 23, 2019

I saw that on the Three Stooges.

Ikea nightmares.

Oh dear, Chet appears to have gotten himself in a pickle again. I’d better go help him out of there. Then maybe we can find somebody who knows a grommis from a frammis and can put this stuff together in, like, 15 minutes.

Call customer service. How’s your Chinese, Chet?

You’ve been robbed, Chet, and it was an inside job.

Chet really gets into his projects.

That’s the problem with instructions for projects requiring a higher spatial dimension for assembly. My tesseracts always look weird. Reminder to self: make them earthquake proof…

Actually Chet has gotten it right. He thought he was ordering a tv cabinet when he really ordered a tsghiveld.

It’s made in outer Slovenia and is used for TVs. “TV cabinet “translates to:”wire enclosure for chickens”Which is what Chet is assembling.

I hope the Chet’s last name isn’t Eiffel because it looks to be a while before that mess becomes a tower.

Chet, like many people, was a bit misled by the description…. or rather, he didn’t quite read it correctly.

Look… it’s right there in the comic… he saw that it came with “Easy to assemble” instructions…

and he thought that meant putting together the …um… cabinet… enclosure…. tower… whatever it is …. would be a snap.

But, in fact, it only meant that the instructions are easy to assemble… which they were.

Line up two sheets of paper, fold in half… and Bob’s-your-uncle.

The item itself, however… not so much.

Ikea?

He obviously didn’t pre-count all the hardware per instructions.

IKEA told you that

it’s a bad IKEA putting it together yourself

I guess it was the Instructions that were easy to assemble!

Take as many looks as you like. You’ll never assemble it properly. You should never buy anything that says “assembly require” on the packaging.

The three little words that strike terror into the hearts of parents:

Some assembly required

I’m confused. Is it plumbing or carpentry?

I guess StelBel’s nephew, Rodney, got that job at XTech Industries as a design copywriter.

Putting together was just another of his pipe dreams.

He tried to use a screwdriver instead of that weird little key that they give you.

some pictures, but at least 1000 different languages, other than Chet speaks or reads.

I’ll bet that was his * first * look at the instructions which I always do as a last resort! ;o{

Chet thought he understood “Now you are putting together yourself over Frammis A into Gribble B with tightening…”

IKEA sells plumbing now?

Things went just perfectly – he’s now part of the Collective…(resistance is futile).

They said it was “simple enough for a ten-year-old.” Chet has just aged out of the system…

Chet has more than one loose screw.

Congratulations on finding your way out of Ikea!

Chet is an engineer, and the instructions are written in plainspeak.

Today, i got nothing.

Chet’s pipes leave something to be desired.