Exactly, your wife basically proved what the dishwasher manufacturers have been saying for years. The soap needs something to cling to, so if the dishes are already clean, the detergent just slides down the drain and does nothing. That's the part that always got me - people scrubbing everything perfectly clean and then wondering why their dishwasher leaves residue. The dried egg and rice thing is totally fair though. That stuff basically turns into concrete if it sits too long. I do the same thing with oatmeal bowls, just a quick scrape and soak for ten minutes before loading. Also, the water savings is real when you stop pre-rinsing. I'm on a well, so every gallon counts. Even just cutting out the rinse step dropped my usage noticeably. The detergent pods nowadays are way more powerful than the old powders too. They have enzymes that actually eat food particles, so they need something to work on. If there's nothing for them to eat, they just dissolve and go to waste. Point is, you were definitely one of many people who got taught wrong. The instruction manual for most machines even says to scrape only. Took me years to unlearn that habit too.

Drag your feet and look down at the ground every time you have to move the hose, that's the trick. Keeps you from tripping over it or yanking the torch out of position. Make sure your buddy is wearing heavy leather boots too, not those flimsy sneakers that'll melt if a spark lands on them. The hose should trail behind you, not loop around your ankles like a snake. And always, always test the connections before you start - nothing worse than a gas leak mid weld because the hose got twisted.

Honest to god, I did the exact same thing last month with a web scraper. I had a while loop that was supposed to check for a "next page" button, but I forgot to add any conditional at all. My computer froze so hard the mouse stopped moving for a full 30 seconds before I could even hit the power button. It's scary how fast it happens too, like you don't even see the RAM climbing because it goes from normal to 100% in under a second. Really sorry you had to go through that, it's a total pain when you think you're being careful and then bam.

The "light ice" thing is brutal because people don't realize ice takes up space. At my old diner, we had a lady order an iced tea with "light ice" and then scream at me for only filling the cup halfway. I finally started telling people that "light ice" means they get less total drink unless they want extra tea to fill the gap. About 80% of them would just shrug and say "oh, okay, just leave it how it is" after that. The problem is customers think "light ice" means the same amount of liquid but less ice, which is impossible unless you want a half-empty cup. I swear, some people think physics just bends to their coffee order.

Makes you think about how those random low cost scores end up being the glue for a whole show. I saw a guy at a convention last year grab a dollar bin book just to fill a hole in a run. Ended up chatting with the seller for twenty minutes and found out they both collected the same obscure 80s series. That one transaction turned into a trade deal that kept them both coming back to the table all weekend.