On the Detroit refinery job, I started resting my pinky on the tube for a pivot point.

That sounds like a rough way to learn a lesson. Big open floors are a totally different beast. Did you end up having to redo the whole section?

Three tries to get a wax ring to seal sounds like a real fight. Is a wet subfloor from a toilet leak actually that big of a deal if you catch it right away? I mean, it's just water and it's in the bathroom, how much damage can it really do in a few minutes?

Okay but are we turning pet messes into art projects now? My dog drooled on my tax forms and it just made a sticky mess, no deep meaning. Maybe @lee_thompson's nose print letter was cute, but my cat walking on my keyboard just deleted a whole page. Not every accident is a happy little edit.

Read an article once about how older folks often see credit as a physical thing they can fix, like @emery290's dad with his "perfect spending record". It makes sense if you grew up dealing with cash and actual ledgers, not these invisible numbers. The denture comparison just proves how hard it is to explain a system you can't touch.