That one time at a park in Phoenix a birth mom yelled at me for 10 minutes straight

Serious question, has anyone else had a client react badly to a gentle peel?

I was doing a glycolic acid peel on a regular client at my studio in Denver, using the same 30% solution I always do. Halfway through, she started crying and said it felt like her face was on fire, which had never happened before. I stopped right away, neutralized it, and found out she'd started using a strong retinol cream a few days prior without telling me. It took a full 20 minutes of cool compresses to calm her skin down. How do you guys handle intake forms to really catch stuff like new products clients forget to mention?

Serious question, how do you guys handle a core switch going down during a big update?

Honestly, I thought our backup configs were solid until last Thursday at 3 PM. We were pushing a new firmware to our main Cisco 9300 stack and the whole thing just locked up. Took our entire floor offline for about 45 minutes. Ngl, we had to pull the power on the standby unit to force a reload from the boot flash. Has anyone else had a firmware update go that sideways on a supposedly stable platform? What's your rollback plan when the config replace command just hangs?

Showerthought: my phone's 'waterproof' rating is a lie

I was hiking near the Columbia River last weekend when a sudden rainstorm hit. My phone, which is rated IP68, was in my pocket for maybe 5 minutes. It shut off and wouldn't turn back on for two days, even after sitting in rice. The repair shop guy said the rating only works in lab conditions, not real life. Has anyone else had a 'water resistant' gadget fail like this?

Pushed a roll of Portra 400 to 1600 and got a surprise

I shot a whole roll at night in my town, figured I'd push it two stops in development. My usual mix is D-76, but I was out. Had some old HC-110 syrup in the back of the fridge. Mixed it up, went for the 1600 time from the chart. When I pulled the film out, the shadows were way thinner than I expected. Almost no detail in the dark parts of the street shots. The highlights looked okay, but the whole roll felt flat. I think the developer was maybe too old, or that chart time was wrong for my water temp. Learned that pushing film is more than just adding minutes, gotta check your chems first. Anyone have a solid time for pushing Portra in fresh HC-110?

Vent: I always thought those wire-pulling lubricant gels were a messy gimmick until I had to pull four 4/0 THHN runs through 150 feet of 2-inch rigid conduit last week.

My foreman insisted we try the green Ideal brand gel, and it cut our pull time from what would have been a brutal three-man fight down to a smooth two-person job in under an hour, so what other old-school tricks have you guys been wrong about?

I finally ignored the 'never use splines for structural lines' rule on a complex curved foundation plan.

After struggling for hours with arcs and polylines on a curved addition in Austin, I drew the main curve as a single spline, set the control points to match the survey, and it plotted perfectly to scale on the first try, so has anyone else found a case where a classic drafting 'never' actually worked?

Found my great-grandma's sewing box from the 1940s in the attic

I mean, it's just a simple wooden box with a broken latch, but it's still full of her spools and thimbles. My mom said she used to make all her own clothes in their house in Scranton, even during the war when fabric was rationed. It's wild to hold something she used every single day, idk, it just makes that time feel real. Does anyone else have an heirloom that makes you think about how different daily life was back then?

Just realized I've been setting posts wrong for years because of one stubborn habit.

I was helping my cousin in Omaha reset a section of his privacy fence that had leaned, and he pointed out I was still using the old 'eyeball it' method for plumb instead of checking with a level on two adjacent sides. That moment in his muddy backyard totally flipped a switch for me. Do you think sticking with a fast, familiar method is ever worth the risk of a sloppy finish?

Question about the sudden 'wellness' push at my job (pretty sure it's just to make us work more hours without complaining)