Pick at what point does that worry actually start taking over your day to day though? Like is it something that creeps up on you gradually or does one specific thing just flip a switch?

wait wait wait... "staring at them for hours like a weirdo" is that you or me? because i literally did the same thing last spring with my new barred rocks and rhode island reds... just sat on a bucket with coffee for like two hours convinced i was about to witness a murder

My first loaf with a scale was like a science experiment gone wrong. I measured everything so carefully but forgot water exists, so it came out like a dry brick. My dog tried to eat it and even he gave up after one bite. Took me three more attempts just to get something that wasn't basically edible concrete.

Blew a capacitor on my home router because I kept ignoring it randomly rebooting for like 4 months. Every time it would go down I'd just unplug it and plug it back in. Finally one day it wouldn't come back at all. Opened it up and the cap was bulging on top like a soda can left in the freezer. Cost me $150 for a new router and a whole Saturday trying to remember all my port forwards for Plex.

Did you really think a drip would just magically fix itself? I had a similar thing with a garden hose spigot outside my house. Dripped for months, I'd just put a bucket under it. Then one freezing night the whole thing cracked wide open and water was spraying everywhere until I could shut off the main. Had to replace the whole spigot and a section of pipe inside the wall. That little drip was a warning I ignored for way too long.