Losing a whole month over one plot hole is wild. Like, was the book even that good? Most of the stuff we argue about in my group gets forgotten by the next meeting anyway. Somebody just needs to text the group chat and say "hey, that was dumb, let's pick a new book." Problem solved.

So your barber looked at you like you grew a second head because you probably did, just not the kind you were hoping for. Calling a bad fade "a choppy" sounds like something a guy made up while waiting too long for his turn in the chair. My guess is it started as one dude's inside joke and now everybody at the gym is running with it like it's been around for years. Give it six months and it'll mean something totally different, like a bad haircut plus a bad attitude or whatever. Either way you're not two years late, you're just early to the part where everyone pretends they always said it.