Misjudging the timing for booking a budget flight to Mexico last fall

I spent nearly 6 hours jumping between Google Flights, Skyscanner, and airline sites trying to book a round trip from Denver to Cancun for under $250. The problem was that every time I found a good price, it expired after 15 minutes. By the time I entered my info, the fare was gone. Has anyone else had luck with a specific strategy for locking in cheap international fares before they vanish?

Realized I was the one piling on without reading the full story

Last month there was a thread about some indie author getting called out for a tweet. I jumped in and posted a angry comment based on just the screenshot. Then someone replied linking to the full thread which showed context I missed completely. The author was actually quoting someone else and agreeing with the opposite position. I deleted my comment but 30 people had already liked it. Has anyone else caught themselves joining a cancellation before checking the original source?

Am I the only one who had a perm go fully sideways on a Saturday afternoon?

I was working on a perm for a regular client in my chair at Shear Style in Portland last month. The timer on my phone died and I left the solution on for 8 extra minutes by accident. Her hair turned into this weird crispy cotton candy texture and I had to do a deep protein treatment and cut off 3 inches immediately. Has anyone else had a timer fail on them and how did you fix the damage?

Tried the 'no eating out for a month' challenge and saved $340 but nearly lost my mind on day 12

I was so proud cooking every meal at home until I realized I'd spent $50 on ingredients for a single lasagna that I ate for 4 days straight. Anyone else find that cooking at home just shifts the spending to groceries in weird ways?

Heard a repair guy say most rinse aid leaks come from overfilling, not the dispenser itself

Last Tuesday I dumped half a bottle of Finish into my Bosch after ignoring the little line (you know, the fill line) and now I'm wondering how many paper towels I wasted chasing a phantom leak when it was just my poor pouring skills - has anyone else blown through a roll of shop towels for something this dumb?

Disagreed with the shop foreman on using filler for that Honda Civic door ding

I was working on a 2018 Honda Civic at Fred's Auto Body in Phoenix last Tuesday. The foreman said to just slap filler on a quarter-sized dent near the door handle, but I argued it needed a proper dent pull first. I spent 20 minutes pulling it flat with a stud welder before applying any filler, and it saved us 30 minutes of sanding later. Anyone else ever push back on the quick fix approach and have it work out better?

TIL you can't run coax next to a fluorescent light ballast

Was swapping out a bad drop for an old lady in a condo complex near Tampa last Tuesday. She had a whole shelf of those long tube lights right above her TV. Her picture was cutting out every 15 minutes, and I almost blamed the tap until I looked up and saw the ballast buzzing 2 inches from the line. Moved the cable over a foot and ran a new piece, and now it's solid. Has anyone else run into weird interference from something that's not even supposed to be a problem?

Shoutout to the guy who used a framing nailer on kitchen cabinets last month

I show up to a kitchen reno in Denver last month and the homeowner had already started. He used a framing nailer to attach the cabinet doors. Every single door had these huge dents and splits right where the nails went in. I spent two whole days filling holes and sanding before I could even start the finish work. He just smiled and said he was saving time. Has anyone else walked into a DIY job that made you want to turn around and leave?

That time a worn pin on a D-sub connector grounded a whole fleet for three days

I got called out to a regional hangar near Tulsa about 6 months ago because three of their King Airs kept throwing nav light faults. The shop guys had already swapped bulbs, tested breakers, the whole nine yards. I started digging into the first plane and found the D-sub connector on the wing harness had a single pin that was almost flat from vibration wear. It was making intermittent contact but the real kicker was that it was grounding out against the shell every time the flaps moved. I checked the other two birds and they had the same exact wear pattern on the same pin. Turned out the whole batch of connectors came from a bad supplier run three years prior. We ended up replacing all 20 connectors across those planes and the squawk went away for good. Has anyone else run into batch defects like that where it's the same pin failing on multiple airframes?

My dad told me to close my oldest card after paying it off. My score dropped 40 points.