Staples Chair

About 18 months ago, I was sitting at my desk minding my own business, when suddenly my chair made a terrible cracking noise, dropped down an inch or two, and tilted off to one side.  The end of a bolt apparently snapped off -- an important bolt.  After that it was really squeaky, but the actual sitting experience wasn’t so degraded that I felt the need to get a new chair right away.

I finally did get a new chair last week.  The previous one with the defective bolt was from Staples so naturally that’s where I went to get the new one.

I spent about half an hour in the store trying a few of their couple dozen chairs, and finally settled on this one:

I knew I liked it when I opened the box and found the parts packaged like this:

That’s such an obvious idea, but nothing else I’ve ever bought has used it.  Normally the parts are all together on one piece of cardboard with a key that you have to match up to the instructions.  This way is much better.  Of course it’s randomly missing letters (as in "Part B" in the photo), but I guess you can’t have everything.

But then I actually opened the instructions and saw this:

...which obviously makes these the best instructions ever.

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