Caught myself leveling brick at the wrong end of the wall for 8 years

Last Friday I was setting a garden wall in Austin and my helper asked why I kept tapping the left side of each brick when the right side kept dipping. I told him that's how my first crew chief showed me. He said, but the level says the right side is low. I stopped, checked, and sure enough I had been fighting the level for almost a decade, making everything worse. Turns out my old boss was left handed and never realized he was teaching me his own bad habit. Has anyone else found out they picked up a backwards trick from an early mentor that took forever to catch?

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