My garage door spring snapped right as I was backing out for a 9am meeting

I was in Cochrane at 8:45 in the morning backing out to get to a client site and the whole door came crashing down on my truck bed, so I had to call a buddy with a torch to cut the broken coil out and then spend the day fixing the track instead of working.

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blake79212d ago

Yeah that 8:45 timing is brutal, I've noticed something similar with how everything seems to break right when you have somewhere to be. Its like the universe waits until you're in a rush to remind you that you don't actually control your own schedule. I had a similar thing with my hot water tank blowing a gasket on a Sunday morning when I had family coming over for a barbecue. The pattern I keep seeing is that we build all this infrastructure around our lives but the stuff holding it together is usually single points of failure. One cheap spring or a five dollar gasket and your whole day goes sideways. Its honestly made me more paranoid about checking things ahead of time but then you can't check everything or you'd never leave the house.

jakeb8112d ago

I read somewhere that most "random breakdowns" actually follow a pattern called the "bathtub curve" where things are most likely to fail right at the start or right at the end of their life... so that 8:45 timing was probably just the universe hitting you at peak failure hours.

karenb9712d agoMost Upvoted

Oh totally, I started keeping a little notebook of when stuff breaks around the house and it's wild how many times it's right before a holiday or when I have guests coming. Started doing a quick walk-through every Saturday morning with my coffee just to check the water heater and sump pump, takes ten minutes and saves me from those meltdown mornings. Have you found a system that actually helps you keep ahead of it?