Oh man, a buddy of mine ran into the exact same thing with a cheap paperback he rebound. His hinge popped loose after one damp spring because he used straight PVA on the spine, and when he switched to about 1 to 3 paste to PVA it stopped cracking. So you are for sure not the only one still cooking paste on a Sunday.

Did you know a guy who works at a car wash in Tempe told me he saw that same couple buying coffee like a week before the "split" news dropped? It makes you wonder how much of this stuff is just timed press runs instead of real life. My cousin used to date a guy who did valet at a hotel in LA and he said the same thing, most of those "insider" quotes come straight from someone on the payroll.

Thought the oven handle was fine for years. Hung my towel there at every station I worked, never had a problem, so I figured the people bugging me about it were just being picky. Then I watched a towel catch on a 425 oven during a dinner push and the whole thing went up in about a second. Now it's the first thing I break for new people, towel goes on the rail or in your apron string, never the handle.