Painted my kitchen lime once, looked like a radioactive lemon.

Kept thinking feedback like that meant we screwed up. Then a client ripped apart one of our decks and it forced us to rebuild the whole thing better. Turns out getting told you're useless can be the kick you needed.

Rick had you testing mortar by hand squeeze in Fargo for 3 days and the joints came out cleaner than with a gauge? That blows my mind because I always figured the gauge was the only way to get it right. Guess the old guys know something we don't.