Who knew the secret to flat comics was letting them stand on their heads like they owe me money?

Three hours just to decide if you like a coffee shop? Come on, that is a huge chunk of your day for something you can usually figure out in twenty minutes. If the WiFi is bad and the seats are uncomfortable, sitting there longer is not going to magically make it your spot, it just means you wasted an afternoon. The barista chatting with you about pour-overs sounds nice, but that is called being a friendly person, not some hidden sign the place is special. Most of us have jobs and errands and only so much free time, so turning a simple coffee run into a 3-hour test feels like making life harder on purpose. Pick a spot, order a drink, and if it stinks, just do not go back.

Did you ever figure out how many weeks it had been doing that before you caught it? I had almost the same thing happen with my car log book, where I track oil changes and tire stuff in a spreadsheet on my laptop. I dragged a row down one too far and it kept copying an old $68 service into every new month. Took me almost two months to notice because the numbers still looked normal, just slowly bigger. I sat there at my kitchen table for like an hour fixing it and double checking every other row after that. Now I check my formulas first thing before I even type in new numbers, which is honestly kind of sad but it saves me the headache.