That 2,000 call mark is the point where your brain stops treating each hang-up like a personal failure and starts seeing it as just noise before the next ring.

You feelin' me on that one. I had a guy come in last month, wanted me to order eight different variants of a Batman issue so he could "complete the set" and flip them. He got mad when I said I couldn't guarantee every cover would arrive without a ding. It's wild how people treat these books like crypto now, not something to actually read. Takes the fun right out of it, if you ask me.

Oh man, @taylorb94 that ticket machine thing sounds like a nightmare. I had a Saturday at a brunch spot where the printer ribbon ran out mid-service and we got 45 ticketless orders nobody could see. My saute station looked like a crime scene with half-cooked eggs and the expediter was just screaming random numbers. Thought about faking a kitchen fire just to get five minutes of peace.

Whoa, I gotta push back a little on this one. I know @baker.riley asked about the fogging, but I think the whole radiation fogging thing gets blown out of proportion. From what I've read, the film they used was tested in vacuum chambers with radiation sources, and it held up fine. The fogging you see in some shots is more likely from poor development or age than from space radiation. A lot of those old reels were stored in corners of warehouses for decades, so they took damage from heat and humidity, not from being in orbit. I'm not saying your uncle's magazine had no point, but one small true detail doesn't prove the whole conspiracy theory. Plenty of normal explanations exist for those foggy frames.

Did that junkyard motor come with any kind of warranty, or was it basically a "you get what you get" situation? I'm always curious how those swap jobs hold up long term, especially when you're talking about a car that's already got two decades on it. I mean, $900 is cheap for a motor and labor, but it also makes me wonder what corners got cut to hit that price. Was the mechanic upfront about what you might be dealing with down the road, or did he just say "send it" and send you on your way? I'd be paranoid about another breakdown if I was hauling a load through Wyoming again.