ABSTRACT

Consider the situation parents often experience on Christmas Eve. They bring the shiny new bicycle into the house still packed in a cardboard box. They dive into putting it together, only to find when they are finished that they have an ill-fitting mess and leftover parts. Then they decide to read the directions, and they assemble the bike rather easily. Things are assembled step by step for a purpose. Cutting corners does not necessarily save time, and you end up with a bicycle that doesn’t look like the picture on the box.