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Old barista at a coffee shop in Portland showed me something about wobbly tables

I was at this tiny shop off Hawthorne back in 2019 complaining that my desk at home wobbled. He stopped what he was doing and told me to fold up a piece of cardboard and slide it under the short leg instead of using a shim. Did it that night and it held perfect for like 6 months. Anyone else got a weird hack like that from a stranger?
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robert_hayes
Cardboard held six months? That's insane. Woulda bet it'd flatten in a week.
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kai_brown23
Wait, did he really use just a regular cardboard from a coffee sleeve?
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