Monday, September 03, 2001

I’ve found an outfit that I hate more than IKEA and they go by the name of HUFFY. These villains sold my parents (through their evil henchmen at Target) a portable basketball hoop with lots o’ missing parts. It’s bad enough putting one of these things together with all of the pieces and half-assed directions, but missing pieces make this impossible. Add the fact that they do include both words AND pictures on their instructions, just not on the same page, so you spend most of your time flipping from the picture page to the instruction page, to the parts page, back to the picture. Keep this up for roughly 180 individual parts and you have one giant headache. Dad and I worked on this piece of crap for three hours before we reached a point that we could go no further. This included the time that dad spent at the hardware store trying to fabricate missing pieces. Finally, it was time for them to leave and me to spend another 45 minutes figuring out exactly what was missing. Thankfully, we have a week grace period before Katie’s actual Birthday so there is time for this nonsense. Update: Mom got on the horn with Target and they let her come in and steal all of the pieces from another box. I’ve had them for a day and they have not moved from their bags so mom and dad are coming over today with the goal of finishing. My head is thumping already from getting up at 4am to go work at the track so this should be interesting. 12:00:00 AM    says you