Oh man, I feel this in my soul! I once drove 20 minutes to a laundromat that only took dollar coins, and I swear I looked like a lunatic asking every cashier if they had any "golden dollars" in the drawer. Then I got back and realized I had exactly $11 in coins but the machines only took $5 increments, so I had to buy a soda just to make change. My laundry day ended with me crying into a damp towel because I ran out of time and had to rewash everything the next morning. The worst part is my card works at the gas station down the street, but the laundry machine is older than me and somehow still runs on pure spite.

and that's the thing right, people are so tired of corporate speak they just tune it all out. once you give them something that sounds like an actual human talking, it's like a breath of fresh air. bet if you kept doing that every week you'd start getting people volunteering their own stories too, that's when it gets really good.