Respectfully, I've had the opposite luck-braided lines frayed on me in the same muck.

My buddy Tom actually got a year's worth of free lattes from that.

Yeah clicking em in and trusting it has never let me down.

Funny how that goes isn't it, you think you're doing everything right then you find out something so simple could save you all that paint and money. It's like how I used to squeeze my toothpaste tube from the middle for years until someone told me to roll it from the bottom, such a tiny change but it makes a big difference over time. Same with the liners, once you know you wonder why you didn't do it from day one. Now I'm always looking for those little tweaks in other things too, like using a funnel to pour oil into my car so I don't drip all over the driveway.

Man I think that lady did you a favor without even meaning to, because so many people don't realize how much we talk around stuff instead of just saying it straight. We'll talk about the weather or traffic or some random thing but really we're checking if the other person's in a good mood or if they're hiding something or if they're about to leave. My whole life I've noticed how people dance around the real conversation and that police report style dialogue you mentioned it's actually pretty common in how we talk on the surface but not what's underneath. Once you start listening to how actual humans avoid saying what they mean, it changes how you write everything not just the talking parts.