How a damn tap can ruin your day
I'm going to tell you something that happened to me yesterday...
It might be useful to you, or it might not.
You might even wonder why the hell I'm telling you this.
Anything can happen.
The thing is, yesterday I went to a restaurant with my family.
Everything was great. Everything was delicious.
Laughter, tears. Well, not really. It was a pretty normal meal, just talking about life and not much else.
Anyway, as usual, I went to the bathroom before leaving, and then we headed out.
A waiter came up to me and said I’d left the tap running, adding that I wouldn’t do that at home.
He didn’t say it once or twice. He repeated it 3 or 4 times. Not very politely, to be honest.
So I said,
“But, are you sure it was me? Really sure?”
Honestly, not to sound like a good guy or anything, but I do have the habit of turning off taps.
Whether at home or anywhere else.
In any case, it’s possible I might have left it running. Let’s not argue about that.
Although the tap was half-broken and barely worked.
It wobbled, and it wasn’t easy to turn it on properly...
Maybe I didn’t close it properly because of that? Anyway, let’s leave it at that...
The truth is, there was some tension, and of course, I’ll never go back to that place.
You can use this story however you like.
In any case, if you don’t want something like that to happen in one of your front-end projects—like pushing a major bug to production...
Which could have been easily avoided...
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P.S. Remember: Avoid errors, avoid problems. Bye-bye, waiter. Wish you all the best.