A napkin from 2019 just sitting there for three years? That's wild. Servin a thousand regulars without even clocking it is kinda funny though, the bar knew you longer than you did.

Read somewhere that worn dies can pass a test pull and still leak later.

Man, this hit home for a friend of mine too. She wrote this long email to her sister after they fought over Thanksgiving, and the first three lines were all sorry this and sorry that before she even said what she was upset about. Her sister called her and said she almost didn't read past the top because it felt like a fight she had to get through. My friend cut it down to just the real stuff, like "I felt left out when you made plans without me," and her sister actually listened instead of getting defensive. I don't think it made it colder at all, it made it clearer, because you stop hiding behind the sorry and just say the thing.