Generic manuals

I bought Stacia a little bicycle, at Toys R Us, for her birthday on Friday. I had to put it together and I'm reading the assembly manual when I realize that it's a generic bicycle assembly manual. In other words, it tells you, step by step, how to put together any bicycle. Nothing particular about this one. So there are long sections like if you have a coaster brake, here's how to assemble it, if you have this, if you have that. Naturally there is a long preamble full of stupid legalisms like "Don't ride off-road in conditions that are too hard for you."

The assembly manual urges you to use adjustable wrenches. But I was thinking to myself, fixed wrenches are so much easier. Aha, but then they'd have to know what size, which a generic manual can't know. Years ago, I bought a boat which turned out to have a generic operation manual. I was looking for the drain plug, which is at the stern in most boats, and my manual said so, too. But it wasn't, not for this particular boat. But naturally there were plenty of warnings like don't crash into fixed objects at high speed. Gee thanks for the warning.

I'd pay more for quality product, but that seems to be hard to find. I miss the days when manuals were written by engineers instead of lawyers.