Man, that sucks hard, did the listing at least have good pics?

Three hours on one hoof? Holy crap, that's insanity.

You said "the trick is to never let it sit" and honestly that hit me hard because I used to be one of those guys who'd just leave the mixer in the bucket and walk away for a smoke break. Figured "it'll be fine, I'll rinse it later." Then last year I had to spend three hours with a chisel and a hammer getting dried mortar off a paddle and I finally learned my lesson. Your method with the water bucket right there is genius, I'm stealing that for my next job. Makes so much more sense than fighting with it after the fact.

I get what you're saying, but I actually think they mean 2 feet (like a solid 24 inches) off the ground with a stick. I've seen people pull off some wild shots where they're basically chipping or pitching with a long club from way off the green. It's not common but it happens, especially in weird positions where you can't get a normal swing. So I'm leaning towards them being serious, not a typo.

Hang on a second. The real value of C isn't just that it teaches you about memory or the machine. Its that it forces you to write code that's brutally honest about what its doing. Every byte you allocate you have to free. Every pointer you use can crash your program if you're sloppy. That kind of discipline carries over to every other language you use afterwards. Languages like Python or Java hide that stuff from you, but C makes you stare at it until you get it right. Thats why learning C is like learning the rules of grammar for a language, then everything else is just an easier dialect.