Procedures for supposedly obvious things

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

I once had to write a procedure for taking a shower in a confined space,
for a defense department contract.  This was related in some way to
writing the MIL-SPEC for showers.  Or some such; it was 20  years ago.
At the time I was a programmer rather than a tech writer, but the
instructional designer/tech writer was swamped and handed the task off
to me.

Since I was used to writing procedural code for an extremely dumb
computer, writing a military procedure for taking a shower was not much
of a challenge.  The PhD. instructional designer was surprised at how
much detail could be squeezed into a set of shower instructions.

Jessica weissman
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