My dad tried cleaning a fossil once with a wire brush. He thought it was just a weird rock in the concrete of our old patio. Took off half the detail before he realized it was actually something. We just have a smooth stone patch now.

My uncle's garage was just like that too.

Last year a client in Oakwood asked me to point a camera down the shared alley toward his neighbor's trash bins... said he was tracking "suspicious activity." It felt really off, and I just told him the system couldn't cover that area. The neighbor actually reported it to the police later.

Yeah I learned that one the hard way last year when I skipped the phone insurance. One cracked screen later and I was out way more than those small monthly payments. @hart.taylor is totally right, it really is about avoiding the big unexpected hits. I feel like my brain fights this logic even though the math is so simple. Why do we always think "it won't happen to me" until it does?