Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet NIGHTMARE!

I have been working on our gardens (I have a few different tiny gardens). One of my gardens is actually a tribute to my main man; it totally looks/feels like you are up north, in the woods, when you look at it! There are no tall pine trees, bears, or caterpillar cocoons the size of pineapples, but you do get the 'woods' vibe when you look at it. I am looking out my window as I am typing and I am transported to some television show about the Audubon society. Never mind that....listen to this...How many of you have ever had to figure out how to assemble an Arm's Reach Original Co-sleeper Bassinet? Well, just how many of you have arthritis in your hands? I purchased one of these bassinets to use when my grandchild comes to sleep over or have a nap. I tried to find a Pack and Play but kept missing them at garage sales. A really good friend had just sold her Pack and Play but told me about the Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet she was selling. It seemed like there was a whole lot more to it than with the Pack and Play but it seemed like a good idea at the time, at least to me. More is better, right? My girlfriend and my husband got the thing into our porch (it was out of the bag and folded in upon itself like a wounded caterpillar.) Later somebody managed to get it into our guest room. The guest bed was covered in extra pieces and accessories for this thing, just in case we wanted to further challenge our assembly skills at some point!

As our story continues, my man friend husband was ready to blow a gasket when he tried to get the Arm's Reach Original Co-sleeper Bassinet to turn itself into a bed of some sort for a lovely tired child just waiting to take a nap! This was after I, alone, attempted to PRESS the pieces in the joints of the bassinet/co-sleep together! PAINFUL HANDS PEOPLE! It TOOK TWO MEN to get the thing to finally snap into place! There were several 'instructional' manuals that appeared to have been thrown violently against the wall in that room. I'm guessing at least one of the manuals is on Assembly and that one is on Dis-Assembly!

The damn thing is STILL sitting in the guest room, taking up all sorts of valuable space! I can't get it to budge at all with my gnarly hands in any of my futile attempts to break it down again! Right now the score is, The Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet - 1 - Me - 0. I gently asked my still-in-a-rage man friend, , if HE wanted to try to at least help me get the Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet to break down small enough to put back into the rather small zippered travel bag it goes in. He didn't even hesitate when he said, "PUT THE DAMN THING ON CRAIG'S LIST!! SELL THE DAMN THING!" Neither of us can get it out of the room and I'm thinking the word "Hammer" hourly! People like me or couples like us shouldn't be allowed to purchase difficult to assemble and disassemble items, EVER. ...Sometimes I will forget it's in there and be all cheerful and perky and just as I start to waltz into the guest room, my entrance is BLOCKED by that damn Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet!!!!!! If my man friend walks into the room and bangs his leg or kneecap right into it, he starts talking about somebody's sons or something ...son of Bridgettes I think he is saying. I can tell you this... If I was that Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet, I'd make myself so small right now and I'd climb into my own carrying bag and then I'd slither the hell out of this house! The odds are that the next time these two particular adults go into the same room with the Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet, somebody is going down.

Just before we went to bed, my man friend and I thought perhaps we could just try one more time to literally just pull the thing in it's full tight as a drum, unBENDABLE state through the doorways (all 4 of them) and then???! Ha! We couldn't even get it through the FIRST doorway! That's when my man friend saw RED! Code RED right here in the house! I was thinking the word "hemorrhage" and I was going to find out how to sue the makers of the Arm's Reach Original Co-Sleeper Bassinet! I think we are better candidates for the simple Pack and Play. Just a simple Pack and Play should do the trick. Simple, being the key word here.

I hope somebody on Craig's List will buy it from me. I hope my friend who I purchased it from doesn't read this or she will say "Shit!." You gotta admit though, it was a funny story.

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