Ha! Nothing like getting schooled by a man who's forgotten more than you'll ever know.

Was it the specific angle of his demo that got through to you, or just the fact that he called you out in front of people?

Wouldn't buying jugs of spring water like @barbaraw16 mentioned actually be way more expensive over time than just getting a cheap filter pitcher though? I mean, I get the plastic waste thing but a couple of glass jugs you refill at the store seem simpler than installing some whole house filter.

Ate my words real fast when a old timer at the hangar showed me how to prime a fuel nozzle by just dipping it in solvent instead of bench bleeding it for 20 minutes, @noah_webb - felt like a total rookie after six years of doing it the hard way.

Turnips changed my whole approach too, but for a different reason. Once I learned how much nitrogen they put back in the soil, I stopped treating farmland like a static resource and started mapping out actual rotation cycles across my fantasy kingdom. It made me realize most fantasy worlds have way too much food production for their population levels. Started adding fallow periods and crop blights to keep things realistic. Now my villagers actually suffer through lean winters instead of always having full storehouses.