Experiences with Bad Instructions?

[SharpWit 2,837]

Are you ever trying to complete something, but some poor wording, imagery, or even flat out false information leave you scratching your head, or evening riling you to the point of screaming it off because it's just left you puzzled or even ruined the task at hand?

Hi, not Billy Mays here! If you've ever experienced this sort of excrément de taureau, I'd like to offer this topic as a place to share such instructional shortcomings, and vent your frustrations over them! 

I'll go first with freshly fiery findings!

Spoiler

I'm getting ready for a memorial tomorrow, where we'll be celebrating the life of a late friend with a potluck style gathering. I've planned to make thematic options in honor of our deeply departed, and find myself having to be extra careful, as not only am I prepping food for more than just myself, but with limited ingredients, funds, and time all to boot! So I'm making sure to be extra careful. Any mistakes and that dish will not be at the event, no chances for recipe redemption! The food farce in question, involved the mixing of cinnamon and sugar for coating elephant ears. I want everything ready so that I may jump into action first thing in the morning, but I need to know the ratio to make sure this is a sweet and nicely Spiced treat, and not just sweetened dirt. Luckily the internet is there to help me with this! I check of course and am instructed to mix the two in a 1:4 ratio,,, that can't be right? Oh no, here's a second link saying the same thing, and a third? Thay seems awfully high for something so strong, best take a conservative approach. I start by adding just 1 tablespoon of cinnamon to my 1 cup of sugar, give it a good shake and stir in a closed container for a solid minute. Pop it open and wow, that's rather dark! A quick taste and it's,,, just acceptable. Honestly, only half that much was needed, but it'll work. Anymore and I would've been screwed, and a lesser experienced me would have absolutely fudged that up in the past, but we're nit making fudge so glad I didn't follow the three top answers given to me via Google. 

TLDR; Cinnamon to Sugar Ratio for Cinnamon Sugar should be 1:32, not 1:4. Those nearly responsible for ruining my dish may have the uncorrected version served at their forthcoming memorials.

[Retro*Derpy 3,269]

I was helping a teacher build an ikea shelf when the instructions on it were clearly wrong. It was okay most of the way but then on like step 13 of 17 wasn't right, it was like a misprint. It turned out there was a YouTube vid over the exact shelf, that showed how to build it.

[Fluttershutter 2,830]

My mom is really frustrating. I'll ask her were something is. she'll say "in the house", "in the kitchen", "on earth"(slight exaggeration). She shows me a bird "over there", points vaguely in the direction of what could be any of five big trees.