If you can’t beat ‘em, join ’em, but only in reference to assembling these two goddamn IKEA parts for a lounge chair, which, after beating them together out of frustration, I finally found the section where they’re supposed to join, but, Christ, spending three hours on a Saturday for this is not worth the discount.
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Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels Kapitoil and the forthcoming The Love Song of Jonny Valentine.
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Competitiveness.
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