My friend's GPS took her down a dead end once. She just laughed.

Hold on, I think that article got it backwards - most older recipes actually used softer, lower-protein flours that absorbed less liquid, not more. If anything, modern all-purpose flour is stronger and might have helped hold that cake together better than your great-aunt's original did.

Guess the mom forgot that a dirty look is way cheaper than therapy and here you are still giving her free rent in your head. Maybe she was just jealous you got to walk away without a screaming kid.

Yeah cranking those teeth down made all the difference for me on a thick berber in Phoenix.

Oh man, that sounds like a classic lesson learned the hard way. I read a piece in a trade mag about a guy who wrecked his whole truck bed skipping the rigging, said the recoil from a branch snapped his chain and the truck took the hit instead of the tree. Sketching it out first just saves you that extra headache. My buddy swears by marking the rope angles on a napkin before he even starts.