My friend Mark tried salting his water after the pasta was already boiling last week. His spaghetti tasted like cardboard, no flavor at all. He's back to salting from the start now.

Oh man, ours was straight from a template site.

Watched my buddy's finished basement get wrecked last summer. His primary pump quit during a storm and he had no backup. Had to tear out all that new carpet and the drywall up to two feet. The real kicker was the smell, that damp moldy smell that just wouldn't go away for weeks. Makes that backup pump cost seem pretty small now, doesn't it?

Feel that kid's comment deep down.

Is it really about cost, or just a refusal to listen to the expert they hired?