# On Doing Things Incorrectly

A little list of the things I’ve done incorrectly for a very long time,
or things I’ve overlooked for ages:

- For a very long time, I thought the yellow and grey tabs and the end
  of a Swiss Army knife were part of the design–I didn’t realise that
  these were the ends of the tooth pick and tweezers.
- I didn’t realise that nail scissors were supposed to be used with
  the curve opposing the curve of the fingernail, instead of following
  it.
- When using an eye dropper, it’s much more pleasant if you _look
  away_ when actually doing the dropping!

Does everyone have realisations like this? I guess they mostly concern
things that are done privately–since you so very rarely see other people
do them, you don’t realise that everyone else’s way is superior to
yours.