What a great post. I'm older than you so have made most of these mistakes a couple of times. The good news is that I seem to remember just after I screwed the pooch the first time and can get on with what ever.

I do have to put a patch on my (tin) roof that could be hilarious. I may or may not take photos and publish. My normal "What's the worst thing that can happen?" has a lot of ugly possibility :)

Thanks. I enjoyed this enormously. And I think the Makita hat worked really well for scooter accompaniment!