Reading Instruction

I think it is because I grew up reading comics, I learnt to jump from one picture to another to understand stories. I obviously apply this technique a lot when I read. It works pretty well to read Chinese Novels, I can flip through the pages by scanning words diagonally and pretty much grasp the basic idea for a paragraph. Reading English takes me more time to comprehend - if the article is interesting I might be patient enough to go through it word by word. But a lot of time, I only glance over them. That happened again when reading the instruction of the 3M magic hook installation and removal. I managed to get hold a mosquito net in Taiwan (no one sells them anymore in Hong Kong). The mosquitos manage to wake us up around 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, really do not know how to control them as I refuse to use chemical spray. We need to hang the mosquito net without drilling nails into the wall, the 3M hooks they claim can do the job sounds just right.

I installed the hook, never tried to remove them. Hence I was just reading the removal instruction hastily when we need to re-position the hook (yeah, we put the first hook on the wall without thinking too much). "Ok, Jon, pull the tape handle, no, no, not 45 degree outward but straight down" "Like this?" "Yeah, you are doing good" The tape between the hook and the wall extended from 4cm to roughly 20cm long and the hook was still on the wall. "Um, Jon it says it will extend to 20cm and ..." "Ouch!" The hook was suddenly released from the wall because the sticky tape has thinned out so much, it was dragged down by the elastic band and hit Jon's thumb. That really hurt - I hasn't been able to finished the last bit of instruction - please hold the hook on the wall with the other hand while pulling the tape down.