Here are this week’s Life Pro Tips.
01. If you find a lost wallet somewhere…
Skip lost & found and take it to the bank branch that issued the credit cards. They’ll be able to look up and contact the person based on their account numbers and you’ve got a much higher chance of getting it returned. It’s a little more effort than just bringing it to an employee or manager of where you found it but you greatly increase the chances of that person getting their stuff back.
02. When proofreading your own work…
Change the font to something you would not normally use. This method is more effective than reading the sentences in reverse order, printing out the document and reading it on paper, or other such methods that people normally recommend. The more obnoxious the font, the better. It should make you feel like someone else wrote the text and that you don’t like them very much, allowing you to be very critical of “their” work.
03. How to clear your car of snow in seconds
Put a tarp over your car at night by closing it in the corners under the hood and trunk (avoid clips). In the morning after a night full of snow, all you have to do is pop the hood and trunk, pull the tarp off, shake off the ice/snow, put it back in your trunk, and drive off. It takes less than a minute and if you know snow is coming, you can just put it over the car the night before when you come home from work.
04. While defrosting your windows…
Pull your visor down. It’ll trap and create a pocket of warm air defrosting the top of your window quicker and more evenly.
05. If you’re prone to anxiety during turbulence on an airplane…
Tighten your seat belt and lift your feet off the floor. You won’t feel the shaking as much and you will calm down.
Another tip is, just look at the flight attendant and see how bored he/she is despite the turbulence. Unless the crew runs for the exit with parachutes and yell: “Remember now, keep your head between your knees,” you are going to be okay.
Airplanes, like pretty much everything else, are very over-engineered with multiple factors of safety for each and every part. Airplanes won’t just rip apart from turbulence, if you look at the wing bending and get uncomfortable you shouldn’t be because that’s what they are designed to do. In order to break the wing off an airliner you would have to pull the tip up so it’s pointing about 45 degrees from horizontal. See this video. That’s about THIRTY FEET for a large body airplane. There is no meteorological phenomenon that will do that. Severe turbulence will only cause a tip deflection of a few feet so there is a huge safety factor built in.
