I roll through the same Pilot in Gary, Indiana twice a month and between March and September the bathrooms went from disgusting to spotless, plus they added a charging station. Has anyone else seen a place flip that fast and actually keep it up?
I bought a cheap $30 jacket from a discount store last month and used it during a storm near Portland. Soaked through in 10 minutes, water dripping down my back. Then I tried my buddy's old military surplus coat he got for $50 at a surplus shop. Same rain, same walk, dry as a bone after two hours. The difference was the fabric. The cheap one had a thin waterproof coating that just wore off, while the surplus coat had a thick waxed cotton that actually repelled water. Has anyone else found a big gap between budget gear and used military stuff?
I've been a dental hygienist for 8 years and somehow pulled off cleaning 100 patients in one 10 hour day. That's like one patient every 6 minutes with no breaks, which is basically impossible unless half of them just came in for a quick polish. My boss said I must have been skipping steps but I swear I didn't. Has anyone else ever hit a weird personal best at work that seemed too good to be true?
Last week I dropped my car off at the local Big O Tires on Oak Street for a simple rotation and balance. They called me at 3pm saying I needed new rear brakes too which added $280 to the bill. Then I got a flat on the way home from picking it up because they forgot to tighten the lug nuts on the passenger side. I had to pull over on the freeway and call my brother to bring me a jack. Has anyone else had a shop mess up something basic like that and then act like it was no big deal?
She sent me a blurry photo from her phone but it's just a dark shape near the shoulder. Anyone know if there's a way to check trail cam footage from highway overpasses in that area?
I looked it up later and the best a 1978 Chevy Malibu could manage was about 18 MPG highway, which is less than half of what a basic 2024 Honda Civic gets, but I wonder if he was confusing old muscle cars with the simpler engines or something else.
My office mate Mark kept pushing me to bundle my renters and car insurance for a discount, saying I'd pocket $30 a month easy. I finally called my provider last week and ran the numbers - my rate actually went up $8 because of some weird multi-policy fee they tacked on. Has anyone else gotten burned by this 'bundling saves money' advice or did I just get a bad agent?
So I had this one section of gutter that would dump water right onto my sidewalk every time it rained. I kept telling myself I'd get to it next weekend, then next month, you know how it goes. Finally got up there last Saturday with a ladder and some basic tools, turns out a leaf filled downspout was the whole problem. Took me maybe 45 minutes to clear it out once I stopped procrastinating. Has anyone else had a tiny home fix take way longer to actually do than the work itself?
I'm pretty sure I did it, since I started at 4 AM and didn't stop until 9 PM, but without the final readout does that even count as hitting that number, or am I just bragging about a stat that doesn't exist?
My buddy swears he saw a video where someone sealed dry ice in a cheap cooler from Walmart and it blew the lid off like shrapnel. But I've used dry ice for camping trips in Colorado for years with no issues. I called a guy at the local ice supply store who said the pressure would need to be insane to rupture a cooler like that. Anyone got a real source or is this just internet fear-mongering?
I was sanding down an old oak table last weekend and kept burning through discs in like 10 minutes each. My buddy stopped by, looked at my setup, and pointed out I had the sander speed cranked to max the whole time. Apparently for wood like oak you're supposed to keep it around 4 out of 6 on the dial, not 6. Felt like an idiot but now I don't go through a disc per board anymore. Anyone else miss a simple setting for way too long?
I keep seeing this clip of a golden retriever 'playing' Mozart with its paws on a keyboard. It has millions of views and people are calling it a genius animal. But I watched it frame by frame and you can clearly see a trainer's hand offscreen hitting the keys for the complex parts. The dog only touches the keys during simple one-note sections. I checked the original upload and it came from a paid content farm, not a real pet owner. Why do people just believe what they see online without looking closer? Has anyone else caught the slight hand reflection in the piano's gloss? That's how I spotted it.
Went to that place everyone calls the oldest diner in town. The one with the vintage sign and black and white photos on the wall. Asked the owner when it opened. He admitted it was built in 2004. They just bought old furniture from a flea market. Anyone got proof of what actually stood there before?
I used it on my deck last spring and the water just soaked right through after two months, the guy at the hardware store swore by it but I looked it up later and it's got tons of BBB complaints. Has anyone actually gotten that stuff to work or is it all hype?
I always used free antivirus. Thought it was good enough. Then last month my buddy's shop in Austin got hit with ransomware. Wiped out his POS system, cost him $4,000 to recover. He showed me the logs from his paid software that blocked the same attack two days earlier on another machine. Now I pay $60 a year for Bitdefender. Has anyone else had a close call that made them switch?
Last month my toilet kept running and I spent six hours watching YouTube videos, buying three different flappers, and pulling apart the tank. Turned out the chain was just too long and getting caught under the flapper itself. A neighbor walked over, snipped two links off, and it stopped running in ten seconds flat. How do you guys avoid wasting half a day on something this simple without calling a plumber? Has anyone else sunk hours into a home fix that should have been obvious from the start?
I was down bad that February, living off ramen and praying my car wouldn't break down again. First jacket was a denim one I hadn't worn since college, had a $20 bill tucked in the pocket. Next day I grabbed my old winter coat from the trunk and found another $20 in a zipper compartment. Third one was just a crumpled $5 but at that point I was laughing so hard I didn't even care. Has anyone else had a ridiculous streak like that where the universe just throws cash at you?