You’re trying to put together a new bookshelf.

You’ve been at it for almost an hour. Something isn’t lining up. You take it apart and try again.

Your phone is sitting on the floor beside you. Your friend has the same bookshelf. They put theirs together last month.

You look at the instructions again. Maybe you have one of the pieces backward.

You take that section apart too.

Twenty minutes later, you find the problem. The shelf goes together.

That evening, your friend asks how it went.

“Fine.”

You show them the finished bookshelf.

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