Took me 6 hours on a single splitter install yesterday because of one dumb thing

Went to hook up a new line for a customer out in the sticks near Springfield. Old house, weird layout. I kept getting this signal loss that made no sense. Checked connectors, checked the ground block, even swapped the splitter twice. Finally after 6 hours I realized the old RG6 line had a kink behind a bookshelf that was flattened almost all the way. Felt like an idiot. Anyone else waste a whole shift on something that simple?

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drew_park1mo ago

Six hours for a kink? I'd be mad, but I'd probably do the same thing.

haydenbutler1mo ago

My buddy once drove four hours to a kink event, turned out the person hosting had a migraine and canceled after he'd already paid for gas and tolls. He just sat in the parking lot eating a gas station sandwich, scrolling through his phone for like twenty minutes. Then he drove all the way back, didn't even bother being mad about it because he said the anticipation was half the fun. I asked him why he didn't just bail and hit up a bar or something, and he looked at me like I'd grown a second head. Some people just really commit to the bit, I guess. Six hours feels extreme but I bet the story was legendary either way.