Asking the staff to bag your pulls before you even walk in is smart. My shop started doing that for one guy who got spoiled on a big death, and now half the regulars do it too. Cuts down on the awkward small talk at the counter too, so why wouldn't you?

My neighbor Gord watched me do the zigzag for two years and never said a word, then one day he just walks over, takes my shovel, and does three strips down the middle to show me. Turns out he sold snowblowers at Sears for 15 years and had all these little tricks. We spent the next hour doing his driveway together and he timed us, 14 minutes flat for a double wide. Now I can't look at a zigzag pattern without hearing his voice in my head.

Cheapest one on the rack" and it's still going, meanwhile the $70 one is probably in a landfill telling stories.