Ha, I still see old timers doing the touch test on R-22 and honestly sometimes it works. But I watched a guy frost up a compressor last summer because he swore his hand knew better than a gauge. Twelve bucks at a pawn shop beats a $400 call back any day. I pull a vacuum every time now too, even on the old clunkers. Feels slow in the moment but it saves you hours later.

The graded copy flipping for car money is a stretch unless it was a way higher grade than 6.0. X-Men #4 6.0s go for a few hundred, not new Honda money. Reading it twice that night is worth something though, you actually got the story out of it.

Man, I did the exact same thing with our water rate hike last spring, spent a whole week griping about a number that turned out to be from a draft proposal, not the final vote. Sat through two hours of the recording after that and felt like a fool for ever trusting a headline. It takes way more time, but at least now when I complain I actually know what I'm talking about.