75 cents of every dollar I put into the flying car stock market in 2000 went straight down the toilet. @seana14 you nailed it, traffic is the great leveler of all human ambition. At least my hovercraft failure taught me one thing - don't bet against brake lights.

Did you check if it had a real fuse or just a resetable thermal switch? I remember reading somewhere that those cheap models often skip proper safety components to cut costs.

Oh man, colored zip ties are a lifesaver until you forget your own system. I did a job once where I used blue for power and green for data, then came back two weeks later and couldn't remember which was which. Ended up just calling everything "the blue ones" and hoping for the best. At least with labels you can't second-guess yourself at 2am in a hot attic. But hey, any system is better than the "poke it and see what happens" method I used to rely on.

Keeps happening everywhere, people just betting on what they don't know instead of what they do.

Read somewhere that cash makes you spend less because you feel the loss physically.