In this post we will  write of some failed, or broken expectations. Not necessarily about the big personal ones,  but of the small, every day ones, like the one you might naturally experience when you finish tying a steel wire to the back of a picture frame. You would rightfully expect the wire to hold, but sometimes it doesn't, and you end up with a broken glass, frame, or both.  When this happens, Customers come to us to get their frames fixed telling us what happened.  During these discussions, Customers ask us  for our opinion as to which material, steel wire, or rope, is the strongest, safest and most durable to hang pictures with. Invariably, they will tell us that they know, that it's steel wire  ...