Last time I checked for endangered species on a job it was just my missing 10mm socket. Guess frogs are a bit more important though.

Four hundred bucks just to get someone to fix the mess I made trying to file with that software. I entered the same number three times and it gave me three different refund amounts. By the end I had no idea what was actually right or wrong. That's when you know it's time to just pay a real person.

What gets me is when people mistake someone being politely curious for a deep fascination. Like, you mention garnets and they say "oh neat," and suddenly you're explaining tectonic subduction zones while their eyes do that slow glaze-over thing. You're basically watching a person mentally queue up their grocery list. Save the mineral talk for when someone actually asks how old the rock is.