Watched thirty ladybugs pour out of a laptop and she just stood there asking about the fan? That poor customer had no idea she was running a bug hotel all winter.

My own sad version of this is a $12 bean grinder from a yard sale that somehow makes better coffee than the fancy burr one my roommate bought. Same beans, same water, but the cheap thing has this weird uneven grind that just works. He told me it was in my head until we did a blind taste test (he picked the yard sale one twice and still won't admit it). Old stuff just had fewer ways to mess things up, honestly. Every knob did one thing and that was that.

$120 for a used prism swap sounds like a steal compared to what a full teardown would've cost. Gotta love when the "dust" turns out to be a fracture that moved every time you tilted the camera, like it was messing with you on purpose. I once spent half an hour scrubbing a "smudge" off a Pentax screen that turned out to be a scratch catching the light at one angle. Lesson learned: if the spot changes when you rotate the body, stop cleaning and start looking somewhere else.