Sometimes that slow setup is exactly the tone a story needs though.

Bought a $20 shovel from a big box store for a weekend camping trip and the blade bent like a paperclip on the first rocky patch I tried to dig. Spent the rest of the trip using a stick like some caveman. Ended up borrowing a buddy's old Army surplus entrenching tool and that thing held up like a tank. Learned fast that cheap metal just folds when you actually need it.

@anthony424 Did IT find what tipped you off after the fact?

Is it really that serious though?

Dragged across concrete floors" reminds me, @hannahsingh, my cat once dragged my Pomona leads under the couch and I found them a week later still fine.