If only I found this *before*… [Filler]

Recovering five chairs takes a lot of staples and I didn’t seem to have any that fit this Stanley Bostitch Heavy Duty stapler. So off I go to the hardware store.

Found staples that were supposed to fit my model, but just to confirm, I took a bundle out of the box and tried to load them in my stapler, which I had taken to the store with me. And tried. And tried. No luck.

So I sought help. Two different guys tried to help me, with no resolution. I thanked them and tried a different strategy. Instead of backing out the spring-loaded slider and loading them in from the back, I tried accessing the staple tray directly by holding the stapler upside-down and dropping them in from the bottom and then locking the slider in place. Voilà!

I found one of the guys who tried to help me and showed him and he was dumbfounded and said, we have to show [the other guy].

Once I got home and we finished the project, I put the stapler away. There were the instructions/manual. Right there, under “Loading,” is the instruction: “Hold staple gun upside down…” Yeeaahh…

My 4000th post. Chronologically #3997 (since there are three “future” caterpillar posts in May), but Post #4000.

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Looking back
  1 year ago: No post
 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: “Happy Birthday, Jenny!”
 4 years ago: “The resilience of children”
 5 years ago: “Our chirping, 4:45 a.m. wake-up ‘call’”
 6 years ago: “These are okay……”
 7 years ago: “George & Jean”
 8 years ago: “Huh. Sloppy plumber? What to do??”
 9 years ago: “Dwarf pomegranate”
10 years ago: “Happy Birthday, Jen!”
11 years ago: “Warranted Good”
12 years ago: “Harbaugh’s Café”

[Danette Thompson]

I have to laugh.I only use my staple gun once a year and it always gives me grief!

[GaryW]

There is just something about reading instructions!

[Mags]

Ha ha! Too funny! I've never known a man who would read the instructions about anything.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam I didn't read the instructions in a timely manner, but at least I still have them; that's the first step: save them! So many manuals are online now, which is helpful.

Given the supposed wisdom of my years (???), I'm getting better about asking for help or directions!

[Mags]

@rhoing That's a good thing. =) My dad never asked for directions, but he taught me how to read a map well since he was a pilot in the USAF for 30 plus years. So we never got lost! He said I made a great navigator. =)

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam When I moved from Michigan to Rhode Island for graduate school, Clare was my navigator with AAA Trip Tiks for the 750-mile route. Getting through Buffalo was *always* a nightmare, but Clare has been my reliable navigator for 45 years! (When the US interstate speed limit was lowered to 55 mph, it was nice to go through Ontario where it was 100 kph (62½ mph).