Three weeks was exactly how long I lasted on a sci-fi doorstop where page 200 introduced a time travel paradox that made the map of the galaxy look like a joke, and I literally put it down to check my phone for restaurant menus instead.

Bag dates are a myth anyway. That mix took too long to wet out cause you dumped it in dry and walked off. Portland stores fine for years if the pallet ain't sitting in a puddle. I've used bags from the bottom of a stack that sat through three winters. No clumps, no problems. Your 4 feet of face brick probably failed cause you didn't mix it long enough or the ground was froze underneath. Store your mud inside the trailer like the rest of us and stop blaming the yard.

Wait, is peanut butter in the shifters actually a bad thing? I mean, that kid basically packed his lunch in a bike bag that was never meant for food, and the sandwich melted... that's on him, but you just charged $80 to clean it out and the guy laughed about it. Sounds like you did the job and got paid, so what's the real problem here? At least it was peanut butter and not like, a rotting banana or something with maggots in it, that would've been way worse and probably cost you more in shop cleanup. Honestly, I've seen way weirder stuff in drivetrains, like a mouse nest in a cassette or a whole family of ants living in a derailleur, so peanut butter is pretty tame in the grand scheme of things. You're acting like this is a big deal, but bikes are tools, and tools get dirty... sometimes with lunch.