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Mother-in-Law Tip for Reading Manuals

by Tom Johnson on May 11, 2009
categories: technical-writing

While eating dinner at my mother-in-law's house today, I stumbled across the following curiosity in the bathroom:

Manual in bathroom as reading material
Manual in bathroom as reading material

Kind of an ingenious strategy. A tribute to the cunning intelligence of mothers everywhere!

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