Five days? That's nothing. I had a client once who told me my submittal schedule was useless because I forgot to account for the three day weekend their entire office took for a local festival nobody else in the state had heard of. Turns out "Fiesta Days" is sacred in that town. Now I ask every new client if they have any weird holidays before I even open their contract. That one mistake cost me two weeks of resubmittals and a very long email from the GC.

Ugh right! A cashier at CVS told me I was using my coupons backwards too. Felt so dumb lol.

Oh man, I used to be all about saving money upfront. Thought I was being smart by renting tools instead of buying. But after three weekends of driving 45 minutes each way to the rental place and dealing with their crappy equipment, I caved and bought the good stuff. Ended up spending way more in gas and time than if I'd just bought it from the start. Now I always factor in the hassle factor before deciding.

And @richardh44 you're totally right about that digital convenience stripping away the warmth. My D&D group hit the exact same wall hard. We had this beautiful chaos of snacks everywhere and dice rolling off the table and someone always yelling about the rule book. Once we went to Roll20 and Discord, it turned into people muting themselves and saying "I attack" then just staring at their screens. The spontaneity died. We tried everything to fix it - better microphones, virtual table backgrounds, even doing silly voices - but nothing matched the energy of looking across the table and seeing someone's actual face when they rolled a nat 20. We eventually just gave up the digital thing and started meeting in my garage with space heaters in the winter. Now we're back to 6 regulars and it feels like a real group again, not just people in boxes on a screen.

Yo same thing happened when my cousin asked about my dvd shelf. I realized I just liked having them there for the look but never touched em. It's kinda freeing to finally box em up.