Man, I always figured left hand bits were a gimmick for guys with too much money in their toolbox. Then my neighbor snapped a bleeder on his old F-150 and I watched him spin it right out with one of those bits. The drill grabs the broken piece and walks it out the same way you screwed it in, no drilling a hole or fighting an easy out that just snaps off. I was wrong about them, plain and simple. A cheap set of reverse bits has saved me more grief than half the fancy tools I own.

I used to be that guy who would get annoyed when a shot got messed up, like the whole point was to get a clean roll and anything less was a waste of film. Then I did a portrait session with my kid at a park and he kept running in front of the camera making faces, and I ended up tossing the posed stuff and keeping every dumb one. It hit me that the perfect shot is boring and the real stuff is what sticks with you. A blurry tail across a sunset tells a better story than a clean frame of nothing. So no, that roll wasn't ruined at all, it just turned into something better than what you planned.