Kicker - Buyer’s remorse

NICK EICHER, HOST: Say you’re at the big box appliance store and you just found the perfect oven or fridge, whatever. You buy it and realize once you get home that’s not going to go through the door.

Oh no! Buyers remorse.

Well, the Dutch military has a case of buyer’s remorse times 1,600.

The military ordered a new fleet of trucks to replace the outdated fleet. What the brass forgot to do was run it by legal.

Turns out, the maximum height for vehicles is a little over 13 feet (4 meters), but the trucks the military bought were taller than 4 meters—too big, can’t use them.

The moral of the story: measure twice, cut once—as in cut the check once.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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