Our first thought is to put it together without bothering with the directions. We want to make it work all by ourselves. And we may seem to get it together for a moment, but then something goes awry. We struggle to figure the thing out, what plugs into what, where all the odd little pieces go, but it only gets more frustrating. The stupid thing just doesn't work.
Nothing fits together right.
One piece is already broken. Then, just maybe, we remember that it came with some directions. They're around here somewhere. And maybe we may remember that there is one very patient parent sitting on the other side of the couch with the directions, waiting, just waiting, to help us put it together right. They are included in the package not to take the fun out of the main present, but to make the main present everything, absolutely everything, it was meant to be.