Glad you're okay, that sounds rough and smart move on the goggles.

This is like that study where people kept saying please and thank you to ChatGPT because it just felt wrong not to, and honestly the bots got better at sounding hurt when you didn't. We do the same thing with automated phone trees, answering machines, even those self checkout things that thank you by name. Somewhere along the way we just started treating anything that talks back like it has feelings, whether it does or not.

Boy, I learned that one the hard way too. Left mine cranked to 80 ft-lbs for about three years because I figured it was close enough for what I was doing, and when I finally sent it in the shop said it was reading way off. So yeah, now I zero everything out like some kind of reformed wrench sinner, and my tool guy still laughs at me when I bring them in for checks.