While I was installing my new car stereo, I had an experience that I thought was sort of cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, context: It turns out that my car dashboard just pops right out. It’s got little plastic tabs that hold it in place, but if you use a “small pry tool,” (according to various websites) it’s simple to loosen. The tool looks sort of like a double-wide flat head screwdriver, with the tip of the bit smoothly bent to about 90 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I’m disorganized about exactly where<\/strong> my stuff is at any given point, I do have a great feel for what<\/strong> stuff I own. I was pretty sure that I did not own one of these, and so I started looking for alternatives. Some websites recommended using a screwdriver, while others suggested a plastic putty knife. Both sorts are filled with comments on the order of “imbecile! The scratching! The ruining! Unprofessional HACK! Hire a professional, like MEEEEEE! Also: marketing<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, as I was weighing my options, I remembered that I had recently received my grandfather’s toolbox, and that it was sitting un-opened in the basement. Figuring, “hey, grandpa loved to work on cars,” I went down there and opened it up. On top of everything else, there was the exact tool I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks, grandpa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have declared this toolbox to be magical. When all seems bleakest, I will open it and find the exact tool I need, waiting for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I was installing my new car stereo, I had an experience that I thought was sort of cool. First, context: It turns out that my car dashboard just pops right out. It’s got little plastic tabs that hold it in place, but if you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}