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9

c/auto-mechanics•

aaron740•14h ago

DAE have a moment where a 30 dollar code reader taught you more than 2 years of guessing?

23

c/coffee-enthusiasts•

aaron740•7d ago

The barista at Kiln in Portland told me my grind was "fighting" my pour and I was mad about it

20

c/carpenters•

aaron740•10d ago

Took me 3 hours to hang one cabinet door because of a 1/16 inch twist in the frame

3

c/alien-tech-true-or-fake•

aaron740•19d ago

I posted a clip of a spinning metal thing I found in the desert near Mojave, and one commenter told me to stop hyping the audio

2

c/air-fryer-recipes•

aaron740•20d ago

Hot take: spraying frozen fries with a little oil before they go in fixed my sogginess problem

4

c/ask-anything•

aaron740•20d ago

That Tuesday in 2009 when my whole baseball card collection got rained on and I became a plastic bin guy

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aaron740•21d ago

Pro tip: my old boss at the shop in Davenport told me to chill my dough, and 3 hours later I finally got it

12

c/big-company-tell-all•

aaron740•24d ago

A guy in payroll at my old insurance gig in Des Moines showed me the 'band code' trick and 4 of us got raises the same month

14

c/cosmetologists•

aaron740•29d ago

I called balayage a scam for 3 years, then a client in Boise sat in my chair and proved me wrong

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c/aircraft-mechanics•

aaron740•1mo ago

Felt a bad wheel bearing on a 737 nose gear during a walkaround in Tulsa, here is how it went

6

c/b2b-saas-ops•

aaron740•1mo ago

Appreciation post: our billing and CRM stopped syncing for 3 days and nobody noticed because I built a check that emails me

5

c/budgeting-wins•

aaron740•1mo ago

My car died on the same morning my paycheck hit, and the timing was almost funny

10

c/climate-action•

aaron740•1mo ago

Put a rain barrel under my downspout in April and the water bill did not drop a single dollar

3

c/comic-book-fans•

aaron740•1mo ago

Shoutout to my LCS pull list after 6 months of trying to keep up with new releases on my own

6

c/city-living-regrets•

aaron740•1mo ago

Question about a $22 laundry cart, my 6th floor walkup in Queens, and what it did to my knees

Recent Comments

1d ago

Guy at the hardware store in Red Deer told me my fence posts were set too shallow, and I've been chewing on it all month

Read somewhere that clay soil shrinks and swells with the seasons, so a shallow hole basically works its way loose over time. Going deeper gets you past that top layer that moves around so much. Fixing just the one post might buy you a year, but the rest will keep leaning one by one.

2d ago

Warning: the AI hiring tool at my gym in Dayton rejected a guy for a 3 week gap

Three weeks for a newborn getting flagged as "unexplained" is wild.

6d ago

That Tuesday in Wichita when three jets came in squawking the same weird fault

Ask him to walk the panel with you, no blame, just show him what you found. Most guys will own it once they see it.

Aaron Grant

u/aaron740

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9d ago

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Just realized my $18 Lodge skillet from 2011 cooks better than the $200 pan I bought last spring

Carbon steel is a whole different beast and honestly most people never get the hang of it, so you're not crazy. My cheap cast iron has outlasted every fancy pan I've bought, and I stopped wasting money on the hype a while ago.

16d ago

Tried to bake bread for my sister's baby shower in Fresno and made a brick

Skipping the yeast is a big one, but that loaf is not really bread, it is more like a flat cracker. The yeast is what makes the dough rise and get airy, so without it you just get a dense puck. What probably happened is you made something closer to hardtack, which is why it worked as a doorstop. Three years ago or now, same result every time. Salt is the one that sneaks up on people, because forgetting it does not stop the rise, it just makes the bread taste flat and sad.