I Am The King of Making Simple Instructions Seem Complicated
September 18th, 2006
Years ago, I used to eat a ton of Taco Bell soft tacos.
Why it happened and what caused me to do such a horrific thing is a story for another day, but needless to say, the most fascinating part of eating them were the instructions on the wrapper. It laid out a slew of very elaborate steps in eating the soft taco which included: pulling back the wrapper, exposing part of the soft taco, taking a bite, pulling back additional paper from the wrapper’s edge, taking another bite and repeating until finished.
At the time I thought it was ludicrous, until I started making simple instructions seem complicated myself.
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