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  • Some (Re)assembly Required

    Setup: the local Walmart just replaced all their cart corrals.

    What’s wrong with this picture?

    Walmart cart corral - incorrect assembly
    Walmart cart corral – incorrect assembly

    As nearly as I can tell, the installers permuted the railings; a simple three bit rotate-left-by-one operation would fix it.

    Not much to my surprise, every single corral looks like that; either the instructions were wrong or, more likely, the installers never read the instructions. Obviously, they didn’t think about the results and nobody ever checked the final result.

    Prediction: the corrals will look like that forevermore…