Just lost $30 on a bad screenshot "shop" app - here's what happened

I paid $30 for this app that claimed to let me crop and edit screenshots perfectly. Downloaded it and tried to crop a funny error message I got from my phone. The app literally added a black bar across half the image and I couldn't undo it. Then it kept crashing every time I tried to save. I messaged support and they just sent a generic robot reply. Anyone else get burned by one of those paid editing apps that promise way more than they deliver?

Guy at the farmers market told me my kimchi smelled like a barn

It was a rainy Saturday about 2 months ago at the downtown market. This older fella walks up to my booth, sniffs the air, and goes "this smells like a wet barn in August." I laughed because he wasn't wrong about the funk, but he wouldn't even try a sample. I told him that's the good bacteria doing its job, but he just walked off shaking his head. Anyone else gotten weird reactions from people who don't get strong fermentation smells?

Overheard a guy at Cabella's say 'these new tents don't breathe' and it made me miss my old canvas

I was grabbing some stove fuel last Saturday and this older fella was griping to a clerk about how his new polyester tent fogs up bad. That got me thinking about my first tent, a heavy canvas job from the 90s I used for about 8 years up in the Adirondacks. It was a pain to dry out but you'd never wake up with condensation dripping on your face. Has anyone else switched back to canvas or found a modern tent that handles moisture as well?

Had the worst perm day of my career last Thursday in Phoenix

Lost a 10mm socket inside a Cessna 172 wing tank last Thursday

I was in the hangar at KPDX trying to button up an annual on a Skyhawk when my 10mm slipped off the float gauge bolt and plopped right into the fuel, so I spent 45 minutes using a borescope and a telescoping magnet to fish it out because there's no way I was leaving that thing in there for the next guy to find. Has anyone else dropped a tool into a fuel tank and had to go full search and rescue on it?

Was dead wrong about the LED replacement bulbs for machine room lighting

I fought swapping out the old fluorescent tubes in our machine rooms for years. Kept saying LEDs were too finicky and didn't handle the vibration from the motors well. Then we had a call in a 1970s Otis bank where the ballast blew and took half the lights with it. The building manager was on my back so I threw in some Philips LED tubes just to get them running again. That was 14 months ago and I haven't touched those lights once. Meanwhile I'm still swapping fluorescents every 6 weeks in another building down on Johnson Street. The color temp is a little cold for my taste but they take the constant starting and stopping without any flicker. Has anyone else had them hold up in a high-vibration machine room or did I just get lucky?

Spent 4 hours chasing a 0.002 inch offset on a Haas VF-2 today

Turns out the coolant nozzle was nudged just enough to mess with the tool setter readings. Has anyone else been fooled by something that simple?

That old welder who showed me how to lay a bead with a stick on a 6-inch pipe taught me more in 5 minutes than I learned in a whole year on my own

We were at a refinery job in Baton Rouge back in 2019 and he just handed me his rod, said 'stop fighting the arc and let it breathe,' then walked away, has anyone else had a random mentor moment like that on site?

I stopped using a smart thermostat 2 winters ago after my gas bill hit $340 in January.

Switched back to a manual dial and a daily routine of checking the windows and closing off unused rooms, and my average winter bill dropped to $185 over the last two seasons - anyone else notice their fancy tech was actually costing them more?

Spent $800 on a pre-inspection for a house in Plaza Midwood and it saved me from a nightmare.