...and see that's exactly why I gotta call you out on calling it "reading the manual" because no one reads the manual. We all just Google the diagram on our phones and pretend we didn't. But to answer your question, yeah it was another guy who saved me from myself. I had been landing 3-way travelers on the common for about a year on a track lighting job at the old courthouse and this old timer named Jerry just watched me do it three times before he finally walked over and said "you keep putting the horse before the cart son." It stung but he was right and I never made that mistake again. The thing is we all think we know what we're doing until someone shows us we don't.

Yeah and it's not just about the grass itself. The runoff from treated lawns can pick up all sorts of chemicals and then concentrate them in puddles. A neighbor of mine used a popular weed killer and their dog got into a puddle that had drained off the lawn. The vet said it caused some pretty bad vomiting and lethargy for a couple days. What really got me is that they thought the product was safe once it dried, but the runoff clearly wasn't. I think a lot of people don't realize how those residues travel and stay active even after everything looks dry on the surface.

@the_alice saw a spark tester article that said push-ins fail most under vibration load.

My dad used to work on his old Chevy pickup and he swore by a bottle of Elmer's glue and water for stopping windows from fogging. Mixed it himself, dabbed it on a rag, wiped it across the glass. Worked every time for months, cost maybe two bucks. I tried it on my own car last winter and it held up way better than any store bought spray I ever used. Just goes to show you, sometimes the old school tricks are the ones that actually stick around for a reason.

Slammed a thermal camera on a 787 APU starter gen last year chasing a no-start gremlin that only happened on hot days. Found a resistor in the voltage regulator that was barely hanging on, looked fine until the box hit 120 degrees. That cold joint thing is real, engines just bake those avionics bays and tiny flaws open up like clockwork. Nice work catching it before it stranded someone in Timbuktu.