My last pot of chili needed THREE extra shakes of salt before it tasted right. It's wild how one person willing to say "nope" fixes everything. You found your secret weapon in your brother. That one critic is worth ten polite people.

Seriously, I just mixed two shades in an old contact lens case and it stayed fine all week.

Sure, paperwork can be annoying, but it's not just red tape. Those delays might save lives by catching issues before a dive. @kim.hannah's friend's situation sucks, but axing a dive over paperwork could mean they found a real problem. Systems have these steps to prevent bigger messes down the line. It's frustrating, but calling it the worst part misses the point of safety.

Saw you want to fix it for good. Read that on a hill, you gotta set posts deeper and use cross bracing. It counters the pull of the slope.