Ok lemme put in my thoughts.

First of all: I'm not here to tell anyone what to do.

In design 101, one of the first things they tell you is to keep it simple and easy for anyone. They told me that, when creating a product, you have to always treat the potential user of the product as if he or she was a complete and utter moron. Your user has NO pre-existing knowledge about anything, he is NOT willing to experiment and if anything is not entirely crystal clear and in their face they will NOT see or understand it.

This sounds rather extreme, but in my experience they are right. You can never assume a user will know the same things you do if you don't tell them. And it's the craziest shit they don't know. You'll be surprised time and time again.
And if they do know it already they'll happily skip past it without paying notice to it. No harm! More than necessary information never actually seems to offend people, it's when the information is delivered in a condescending tone when people get pissed. 

A friend of mine learned this first hand when he heard time after time that he had to dumb his reports down. When he did a presentation about a game meant to be played by autistic preschoolers and gave the presentation as if directed at preschoolers. He essentially treated the teaches as toddlers (partly as a joke to fit the theme of the product, partly as a commentary to their previous critique). The teachers did not take it well.

Anyways. As for my own offense. The scalpel.
I had a good story for it. Made of surgical steel (doesn't tick of metal detectors) and hidden implanted in his leg! Pretty metal, no pun intended.
In hindsight I definitely should have consulted you though.
Hey, at least Jerid has the thing hidden and isn't openly flaunting it in public...