In this tutorial, you start with a wooden sword. You find a mace that's better, learn to equip it, then immediately unequip it. Then you go find another wooden sword?? Then the traffic cone, and at that point the joke says that all the money was spent on "the mace you can't use." ??? This tutorial should not begin with a wooden sword, and it should somehow show that using a weapon you have no skills for is not desirable. I thought the tutorial used to do that. It's been a long time for me, but as it stands now, it doesn't make much sense.
That tutorial is outdated, as you no longer suffer penalties for weilding a weapaon without the associated skill. It should probably be removed entirely.