Tripped on a loose tile at my gym and dumped a whole rack of weights on my foot. Took me an hour to hobble to the ER. Lost a whole training session and my foot still hurts.

Hold up, 35 on the volume dial? That's insane. I don't think I've ever pushed mine past 25 without my ears starting to bleed. The opera part too, that's the loudest, most embarrassing section to get caught on. Honestly, that guy in the next car probably got the show of a lifetime. Ngl, I'm kinda impressed you committed that hard to the bit, even if it was by accident. Tbh, I'd have to move to a different city after that one.

Got the same problem with a cheap cassette lockring tool. Only cost me $8 but it slipped and gouged the hell out of my hub's freehub body. Had to replace the whole wheel since the damage was bad enough that new cassettes wouldn't sit right. Spent $120 on a new wheel and $40 on the proper Park Tool lockring tool after that. Cheap tools are just gambling with your parts and I lost bad on that one.

Four hours in a barely warm drying room sounds miserable.

Funny you mention the gas savings - I figured out my old gym was costing me about 30 bucks a month just in driving there and back. The real win with home workouts is how much easier it is to stay consistent when you don't have a 20 minute commute to dread.