Man, the real win here is that the change machine didn't eat your quarters first. Those things are basically slot machines that never pay out. I'd have been standing there feeding it one at a time like an idiot.

Tbh I remember watching a video from some cabinet maker up in Canada who said the same thing about measuring the front of the box. He was doing a whole series on soft-close hardware and kept hammering that point about drawer box squareness at the opening. Honestly it makes sense once you think about it, since that's where the slides actually lock in. Ngl, I still mess up the mounting screws on the back bracket sometimes, but checking the front measurement first has saved me so many headaches.

“blamed the ground and my age” hit me hard because I did the exact opposite. I switched FROM a fancy inflatable TO a thick foam pad last spring and my back felt worse, not better. Turns out the inflatable was letting me sink too much and my spine was curving weird. I only figured it out when my buddy let me camp on his crappy Walmart pad one night and I woke up feeling like a new person. So yeah, pad thickness and firmness is a total game changer, but it’s not always about going inflatable. I’ve got a buddy who swears by stacking two thin foam pads, it’s like a weird science experiment but he sleeps like a baby.