The "two sittings" part is what gets me, because that's exactly how it hooks people. Water 7 works because it turns a fun pirate crew story into a real gut punch, with the crew falling apart and Usopp leaving, and once you hit that you can't just stop. It's the same reason your brother handed you volume 34 instead of chapter 1, since one strong arc can flip your whole view of a series you wrote off. Did you keep going past Enies Lobby or did you stop after that arc wrapped?

I saw a thread on the JLC forum last year where a guy's $15 angle grinder from a pawn shop blew a $3,000 tile shower. Sounds like the clogged dust port is the real killer on those cheap saws, they just don't move enough air to start with.

Did your friend also learn to stop opening the oven after years of flat cookies?