Poll: Have you ever read the "15-Page Instruction Manual" that comes with a new vacuum cleaner?

LOL! That is so funny. I swear to you I just threw out my manuel last night. We bought a vacuum last week and have not once looked at that manuel. Hey, if you are friggin Einstein, i'm right up there with you. SMILE!

Did you get hurt patting yourself on the back for that one? I mean it's not exactly rocket science, is it Jethro? LOL

Yeah I would have done the same thing myself, except I would have glanced through the instructions just to see if there was anything special in there that might have a smidgen of interest for me, otherwise I would just pop open a beer and let the wife do it because that is a man's job. That could, of course, explain why I am divorced now.

Sears Shop Vac, yep, had one of them. Would track around picking up dirt and expelling it all over the shop. Turned it into a confetti blower for parades spewing out shredded paper as the float went by.

I do not need a manual. I am an expert due to 14 years of cleaning houses. WOW---lucky you; you just escaped hearing my rant on what to buy and what not to buy as far as vacuums are concerned; kids due home from school!!

Just make sure the sweeper is on the correct setting for low carpet and high carpet before you think it's broken. I'm not a vacuum genius and I never claimed to be.

This also applies to laundry, since I just unloaded my washer to discover a lot of my white clothes are covered in not so beautiful pinkish streaks. wtf.....

Most of the damn instructions made now and days aren't even written in english! That must mean we are all too smart and don't need directions.

Nope I don't read it, I make the resident manual laborer read it and figure it out then show me how to use it.

Now try to figure out how to get the garbage emptied out.

You obviously didn't get a Dyson. It takes a rocket scientist to figure them out.

Now that your place is clean, you can have a party.

I especially like when the manuals are written by non-English speaking people. They totally mangle the directions. Actually, it's quite amusing.

After you've disentangled your arm from patting yourself on the back, find a place for those 15 pg.'s because you'll need the parts #'s.

No. I did exactly the same as you and now the machine is so bunged up, it stopped working after a month, seems something or other about a filter.