Rant: My dad said 'measure twice, cut once' was just a saying, not a rule

I was building a simple bookshelf in my garage and eyeballed the final board, cutting it about an inch too short. The whole thing leaned like the Tower of Pisa and I had to scrap the project. Anyone else have a 'helpful' tip that backfired spectacularly?

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hernandez.ben2mo ago

Ever heard the one about "a little glue fixes everything"? I tried that on a wobbly chair leg, and now my living room carpet has a permanent friend (it's the chair, stuck forever). Turns out glue doesn't care about your plans, it just picks a spot and commits.

craig.parker2mo ago

Yeah, glue has a mind of its own. I swear it waits for you to look away for one second, then it grabs onto the one thing you didn't want it to touch. It's like a weird liquid that just decides what the real problem is, and your plans mean nothing. Next time I'm just using a wedge or something, because that stuff is way too loyal to surfaces it shouldn't even know.

nelson.finley1mo ago

Ever feel like @craig.parker is right and glue just hates us? That stuff has zero respect for what we're trying to do.