At checkout—like clockwork—Jason’s phone rang. He grabbed it, glanced at the screen, and froze.“Better answer that,” Lauren said sweetly.He did. And her prerecorded message played loud and clear:

“We’ve detected suspicious behavior: disappearing at checkout to dodge paying your share.”His face turned redder than the tomatoes in the cart.For the first time in months, Jason paid the bill—and carried the bags, too.Safe to say, “work calls” stopped ringing after that. But Lauren? She keeps her smartwatch charged. Just in case.