This curiosity may seem a little off track to some people in this thread… But it actually isn’t as odd as it sounds.
Over the years, I’ve heard so many basic testimonials of one product or another. Somebody identifies a product and then they identify a certain length of time they’ve been using the product with no problem.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that with one caveat.
Let’s say, for example, in this instance… You’ve been using a certain string and you’ve had it in service for eight months. And in those eight months, it’s giving you excellent performance and service life.
OK… No disagreement or argument there. That’s straightforward enough. Minus a couple details that might actually be relevant to your statement for clarity.
When you drive a car, the odometer gives a very clear record of how many miles you’ve driven. Logical and reasonable but also potentially misleading, regardless of how an unintentional.
For example, if you start your car up every morning in your driveway and you leave it in park and you just step on the gas pedal and run it up to around 3500 RPMs and just stand on it for an hour, you put where on the engine, but you put 0 miles additional on the odometer. So the odometer reading does fairly accurately tell you how many miles the car has rolled down the road, but it doesn’t accurately give you how much time has actually been put on the engine?
So when you say you’ve used a string for eight months… How often do you throw that yo-yo per day per week per month? And how long is each throwing session with that particular string on a yo-yo?
For example, I can say I’ve had a no jive with the original string on it from 20 years ago and it’s still good as new. But I may fail to mention that I only throw the yo-yo one minute a day each December for the last two decades.
So… Ben, let me ask you something. How many hours of play have you actually logged in with that string over an eight month period?
I would not even have thought to consider this little questionnaire if you would’ve said something like… I’ve had this string on this yo-yo this yo-yo every day for four hours. Four hours a day, seven days a week, for eight months. Now that’s a durable string, lol.
I’m in no way saying or suggesting that you deliberately misled anybody by saying what you said. I believe you’ve had that string in service for eight months. And I have no problem believing since you’ve been around for a while that you probably throw a little bit each day.
But your statement says very little about how many actual hours of play that string has seen in an eight month period