I’ve thought of offering strangers rides that are walking down the street. Seems like a nice thing to do, I’ve done it once. Was nice to help out.

How does this get through in shower thoughts? They gatekeep the crap out of me and this is clearly an opinion

Touché. Right to remain silent!

Ya, a sad world where you have to hide.

I follow the notion of spread credit and take blame. For instance I was at work the other day, I work on home entertainment systems, and the guy I was working with turned the volume all the way up on this persons stereo system. When it turned on it was LOUD, way too loud. I figured out what happened and turned it back down and when the homeowner came up I said "Oh sorry I accidentally turned the volume all the way up, sorry about that". My co-worker didn't even know what happened until I explained it later when the client was gone.

I could have been a dick and said "Oh he turned the volume up, sorry about that." But by taking blame it shows professionalism and shows my co-worker that we do things together and work as a team.

He was good at his job, just shitty personally.

In 2 weeks he'll have a fat bitch and you'll see the faded sticker imprint forever on his tailgate lol

Honestly is the best policy in every situation, if you find yourself trying to weasel your way out of a mistake just bite the bullet and deal with it head on and admit your error.

People will trust you and I haven't found too many people that can't understand an honest mistake. Some errors are worse than others and you may even get fired but your next job won't know what you did!

I didn't think about articulating mounts! Tilts and flats are the same to me but you are 100% right about articulating mounts! Studs are mandatory and with LAG bolts not drywall screws.

I do AV and hang TVs for a living. You don't have to 100% of the time hit a stud if its 100% necessary a TV go somewhere.

If your mount fits over the studs and just doesn't have a hole, make one! Just drill a hole in the mount. If you have "The frame" TV mount this may not be an option as those mounts are tiny.

EZ Anchors and other high quality drywall anchors can provide over 75 lbs of holding force per anchor so in theory with 4 anchors you can hold 300 lbs. Obvisously that is not likely going to work in the real world but your TVs are under 100 lbs and spread across different parts of the drywall you will be ok.

If you are using "The frame" TV those are meant to be ON THE WALL so we get then right on the wall, we use in-wall boxes for video and electrical and a 3/4 furring strip as others have suggested you will have a 3/4 gap on the wall.

Another thing you can do if you don't care about drywall damage, and I have done this as well, is to cut open a section of drywall behind the TV and add your own stud! You can drill into the stud and it will use a large section of the drywall as a form of a washer so your holding power should be greatly increased. The larger the stud the better and if you are lucky you can anchor the new horizontal stud to the regular stud.

In the end though no one is likely ripping this down off of the wall in a way that is going to cause it to fail. But use the anchors appropriately and use the biggest ones! The EZ Anchors come in 50lb and 75lb sizes. Butterfly bolts or toggle bolts are good too I like the 1/4 size as the fit nicely in the holes of TV mounts a majority of the time.