The Struggle is REAL, People!

Here's a small glimpse of what it's like to be inside of my mind. [jo]

So, I finally upgraded my grain mill to a Mockmill, and although I actually received my new mill a few weeks ago, I was not able to open it up until Thursday [out of town and all that]. This picture was on the inside flap:

I studied it and studied it and really puzzled over it ... what in the world? Finally I realized the red "NO" picture showed the mill upside down. Ok ... so don't carry it upside down. But why would anyone do that anyway? I mean, it seems rather silly to turn the mill upside down to carry it, so why even put a "NO" picture on the box to state the obvious? [by this time I had all sorts of images in my mind of reasons why someone would carry the thing upside down, but none of them made sense] But then I realized the two green "YES" pictures were also upside down ... and that brought on all sorts of other confusions and questions [and more images in my mind]. 

Finally I just decided to ignore the confusing pictures, and be sure to handle it in a way that made sense to me [which did not include carrying it upside down]. 

It took a ridiculous amount of time getting the thing OUT of the box - it was very well packed. It would have been a few minutes shorter had they not also included yet ANOTHER confusing-to-me image of how to get it out of the box. UGH! Once it was out, I had to do a few things to it because something came undone during shipping. Ok. I got all of that figured out and found a home for it. By this time, 20 minutes or so had gone by since the initial confusion of the picture on the inside flap. It was time to break the box down for my burn pile, and that picture on the flap was staring me in the face again. I puzzled over it a while longer, wondering if it would make sense now that I had the thing out of the box and in its new home.

Finally it hit me.

Yep. The picture was upside down. UGH. The struggle is real. For those of you who do not know what it's like to see everything in pictures, this is just a small example. It's so hard to get the thousands of images of what does not make sense OUT of your head to make way for what DOES make sense: turn the stupid picture around.