Bad design

Since it's going to be cool today, I turned off the AC. I also decided to clean the filters since it's been a while.

Ok, washed the filters, waited for them to dry. Went to put them back. All okay so far.

Put the top cover back on. Note, the covers are different sizes and gave these helpful arrows on one side to tell you which way is up.

Top cover went one fine. Bottom cover just wouldn't go. It was getting painful crouching next to the AC (It's a portable).

So I dragged over a milk crate to sit on. Cue many more minutes of trying to make it go into place.

Finally, I decided to try something stupid. I turned the cover upside down (so the arrow was pointing down).

It slid right in.

I am *very* annoyed with whoever designed this....