Remember my buddy complaining his fridge was running nonstop. He was ready to call a repair guy. I told him to borrow my thermal camera first. Sure enough, one corner of the condenser coil was a bright hot spot. Turned out the fridge was shoved too close to the wall and a dust bunny the size of a small animal was blocking airflow. He cleaned it, pushed the fridge out a bit, and the problem just went away. Those cameras turn a guessing game into a five minute fix.

Honestly the whole thing feels like a weird loyalty program for public transit. Next they'll be offering punch cards where your tenth scream-cry into a scarf on the rainy 8am ride earns you a free transfer. The going rate for a smooth merge is probably one slightly warm bottle of water and a half pack of gum.