Exactly, I think some people just don't know how to put a tire on. What's weird is once a new tire goes on the first time, it gets easier after that, yet their applying gunk to get them on.

I help people on the side of the road all the time, once though a guy refused my help saying he got it handled, so I rode on. I came back about 45 minutes later heading home and he was still there...trying to get the tire on. So I stopped and asked him what's going on and he said the damn tires were too stiff and don't fit the rim right. So I asked if he would mind if I tried, by this time he was tired and angry and just gave me wheel, in 2 minutes I had it on, he looked at me with disbelief. So guess what I did next? I took his tire levers he gave me to use and removed the tire from the wheel much to his dismay, and then I gave the levers and wheel back to him and talked him through it. 4 minutes later he had on himself. He thanked me a lot, he never knew what he was doing wrong till I showed him. I usually do explain to people first and let them do it while I talk them through it, but I thought when I saw him there 45 minutes later there was a problem with the wheel and tire so I did the first time thinking this could take me awhile. He just wasn't getting the tire bead to squish in and drop into the channel. It was a snug fit, it snapped in.

Most tires I can put on by hand but that one I don't think I could of because it was pretty snug.