The trick with the 5th street truck is the guy restocks once around 11:45, so if you roll up at 12:05 you get the fresh batch and beat the office crowd that shows up at 12:20 on the dot. I learned this the hard way after three sad burritos across the street. The brick and mortar places know they have you trapped, that's why they can charge $9 for a burrito the size of a phone. My cutoff for that truck is 12:25, after that it's scraps and they're already wiping down the grill. If you see the salsa containers stacked up, you're too late, just go home and eat a sandwich.

Six hours for a 2 minute fix sounds less like bad luck and more like skipping a step you already knew. High point venting is day one stuff on a feedwater line, and that dead-leg branch should've been on your radar the second the gauge started bouncing instead of holding. A steady swing between 80 and 120 is a classic trapped air tell, not a pump or flange problem. Foreman was right, and honestly the real lesson is you spent the day chasing hardware when the drawing and a bleed valve would've ended it before lunch.