Step 1: Completely Assemble Product

Remember when I told you I got a basket and light for my bike?  Well, really the company got a company basket and company light for the company's bike.  But I picked it out and paid for it with the company's money.  But because of the style and age of the bicycle, there was only one style of basket in stock that would work with it.  It seems simple enough, and really it was simple to put together.  But I'd like to say that for anyone who doesn't already have a mind for assembling products, the photos were not very helpful.

Allow me to interpret what the Japanese part should translate as (but doesn't):

Photograph 1: Here are some parts (but not all the parts that are included).  Also, they're already partially assembled even though this is photograph 1.

Photograph 2: Here are all the parts, fully assembled, and taken from an unflattering angle so you cannot see how they became fully assembled.

Like I said, I got it all assembled, and just in time too because I was tired and wanted to sit down, and right when I finished assembling the basket, boy did I EVER sit down.  Right then and there, on a chair in the living room.

Oh, if you are interested, the Japanese labels only label the parts.  And with really obvious names too, like "Metal Fitting A," "Metal Fitting B," "stopper," and "plate".  It's not like they give away some steps I'm not mentioning.

Really, that's all that happened today.  At work we did roll some plastics back and forth, but it was incredibly tiresome.  Today it was a roll with 4500 meters of plastic!  Imagine walking the length of 50 football fields, only you get too tired before the last one and stop.  Because 4500 meters is about the length of 49 football fields.  Now imagine all of those football fields rolled up really tightly onto a 3-inch cardboard core and shipped to Nagasaki.  Now imagine my joy when I open a box to find 49 football fields rolled up, sent to me from my friends in America!  I would be able to play a game of football a day for 7 weeks and just throw away each football field after one use!