It's only a pipe and two wires right?  What could be so hard about that?  Well the problem lies in the design of these things:

These rings mount your disposal to the sink, and let a more infernal piece of crappy engineering, you have never encountered. 

You will be shocked to know that your Garbage disposal is supported primarily by one little, seemingly flimsy metal ring.  This little bastard here is the worst of the lot. 

The pain and suffering a little ring like this caused me...

The way it works those other triangle parts go under the sink on the underside of the drain piece that goes through the hole in your sink and then this ring snaps on the drain piece.  By "snaps on the drain piece,"  I mean you wrestle with the thing for about 45 minutes on your back with your head in a puddle of nasty under-the-sink water while ancient plumbers putty that has now turned to powder falls in your eyes.

Then you get the hold the 30 freakin' pound disposal in one hand and try to match it up to this piece:

Which it screws onto in a way, but you have to do it just right, and you have to line up one of the little thingys on the disposal that you can't see at all because of course it's at the back of the sink.

So you've got it all hooked up after 2 hours of aggravation.  You run water through it, it doesn't leak, and you feel proud.  You've already stuck the wires in the bottom (I'll spare you the details of that, but it's also a pain in the ass) and you're ready to flip the switch and...

Yep then the power goes out, not because of your amateur electrician work, but because you live in Florida and there's a thunderstorm and that happens. 

Time passes, the lights come on after you've been sitting on your couch with no air conditioning for an hour and a half, and you excitedly rush to the kitchen, and flip switch and, of course noting happens, because the wires came all apart while you were maneuvering the beast under the sink.

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