Now what I need to know is this: is this a problem with the manufacturer across the board or was this one of those mistakes which got under the radar of quality control?
Do you remember the song Johnny Cash did about the Wednesday car? It is a sure bet your unit was not manufactured on a Wednesday. Perhaps it was a hungover Monday or a can't-wait-to-get-drunk Friday.
While it is probably of no consolation -- most of us have purchased one item or another which made us wonder if we had lost our minds. You know, you get home and say

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One other thought. You didn't pray for patience or anything crazy like that; did you?