felt like a real cook" over hollandaise? Congrats on the eggs, chef.

Honestly the old guy got lucky, that's it. You can't sit here and act like checking a return line is some magic trick that beats doing actual diag work, because for every collapsed hose story there's ten more where the injectors really were shot and the guy who ignored them looked like a fool. Swapping parts gets a bad rap but sometimes it is the process, you test what you can and the fastest path is trying the known fixes on a truck with 200k miles. A $12 hose that fixes it after the fact is easy to brag about, nobody posts the times grandpa's advice wasted a whole day. And let's be real, watching from a waiting room for 20 minutes doesn't mean he knew the truck, he threw a guess and it landed.

That Mammillaria story reminds me of a time at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. I saw a huge stapelia plant with these star-shaped, maroon flowers that looked like felt. I actually reached out to touch one because I was sure it was fake. The texture was so weird and fuzzy, but it was totally real. It's wild how some plants evolve to look almost artificial to us. I guess our idea of what a flower should look like is pretty narrow.