honestly the paperwork took me like 20 minutes and I was shocked. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop but the rebate showed up in my account before I even finished my morning coffee. my only regret is not doing it a year ago. the city made it way less painful than renewing my driver's license, which is saying a lot. now I actually look forward to my commute and my gas bill is basically nothing.

Isn't that just a sign the place never bothered to change?

Drove past a job last fall where the open cut crew hit a gas line on day two and the whole block smelled like a barbecue for a week. City inspector was standing right there taking notes on his clipboard too. That said, I did a 150 footer with HDD back in August and the mud pit overflowed into a lady's flower bed, cost me a hundred bucks in apology plants and a handshake that felt like a lawsuit. Restoration time is a coin flip either way, but I always add a half day to my bid just for the cleanup surprises nobody talks about.

Shims are one of those things you never think about until someone shows you, then suddenly you see them everywhere. Kinda makes you wonder what other obvious tricks we're all missing out on.

Honestly, I probably would've blamed the printer for a full day before noticing.