Damn, that's a rough way to find out lol.

My grandma used to do that kind of meal math all the time, and now I see my friends doing it too. It feels like a basic skill that got lost for a while but is coming back hard with these prices. Your chicken plan is the exact same logic people use for those big family meal prep videos now, just for survival instead of views. It's wild how being broke forces you to learn the efficient, old-school ways to cook that actually make sense.

Sometimes the "boring" dish is the one people actually come back for.

Man, that "loud pop and a flash" is the universe's way of saying your workday just got a thousand times worse. Sounds like that wrench decided to go for the most expensive game of operation ever. At least it was just the cable and not the actual battery pack, or you'd be telling a story about a very fancy and very dead paperweight. I guess the bright side is you only had to call one specialist and not the fire department. What did the shop manager say after the smoke cleared?

Why would you miss teaching methods that honestly wasted time and caused more errors? Digital tools get the job done way faster with way less mess and rework. I've seen guys spend half a day just snapping lines that a scanner gets right in ten minutes. That old way just slowed things down and made less money for the shop, end of story.