Feels like people are paranoid" - nah, @dixon.james literally saw it happen to his buddy, it's not that rare.

Man, you're speaking my language with that backing cut trick. I've been doing carpet work for years and I still see guys hacking at the face with a dull blade and wondering why it looks like a beaver chewed through it. Folding it back and cutting from underneath is the only way to keep those edges clean, especially on patterned stuff where every fray shows. But I gotta ask, on those crooked old vents, do you ever bother trying to square up the subfloor first or do you just fudge the carpet cut and call it a day? Because I've spent way too many hours fighting a warped floor just to have a stupid register cover hide all my work.

Did your friend end up trashing an old bike project because of that chain slop issue?

Did your cousin actually look up what that denial code meant before her lawyer had to catch it?

Glad someone finally laid it out straight instead of just hating on iced coffee.