{"id":145055,"date":"2024-06-13T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/iti-have-always-laughed-at-those-who-read-the-instructions-but-the-joke-is-on-me-adrian-chiles\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:10:36","slug":"iti-have-always-laughed-at-those-who-read-the-instructions-but-the-joke-is-on-me-adrian-chiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/iti-have-always-laughed-at-those-who-read-the-instructions-but-the-joke-is-on-me-adrian-chiles\/","title":{"rendered":"ItI have always laughed at those who read the instructions. But the joke is on me | Adrian Chiles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow much time could I have saved, and what handy things could I have done, if I had actually read the manuals for all my gadgets?A long time ago, I went to a friend\u2019s wedding at which the best man made an amusing observation about the groom. He said he was the kind of man who, upon buying a computer or food processor or some such apparatus, would sit down and read the manual cover to cover before he\u2019d got the machine out of the box. How I laughed, because I\u2019m totally the opposite. But the joke\u2019s on me.Until recently, I drove an estate car with a really useful feature. Instead of opening the tailgate fully, you could just flip open the back window for easy access. Nice. Hardly life-changing, but nice. The unfortunate thing was that, having driven the car for three years, it was only on the day I took it back to the dealership where the dealer checked the car over that I learned about the feature. Ooh, I said, as she popped it open, I never knew it could do that. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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