My buddy Dave got hit with the same thing at a place in Sparks last year, 30 units and the inspector flagged every single smoke detector. He grabbed a can from the hardware store on his lunch break and passed the recheck that same afternoon.

Ha, same thing happened to me on a trip to Grand Lake last summer. My fancy watch was dead by noon and my old flip phone in the glovebox was still kicking with half a battery. There's something about a phone that just does one thing and does it forever, no charging every night, no updates breaking stuff. These days I mostly wear the smartwatch for steps and leave the time telling to whatever cheap phone is rattling around in the car.

Watched a lady hand out ice cream calendars and now you're rethinking your whole email plan? That feels like a stretch. A free flavor list works because people want ice cream and it's fun, not because she cracked some secret code about being friendly once a month. Plenty of businesses send stuff on the first of the month and folks still ignore it. The line was probably long because it's a small shop on a Saturday, not because of her email game. Maybe the real lesson is just that she's good at her job and people like her, which you can't really copy paste into a newsletter.