Hold up, @amy_adams13 said paper towels from the break room. That's the real crime here, not the coffee filter. Those things are basically sandpaper. My face hurts just thinking about it.

Six hours for a whole vacation day seems a bit much.

Phoenix summer" is the part that got me. That is NOT a joke. I had a friend out there whose plastic dashboard actually MELTED last year. The idea of the AC just quitting in that heat is a full-on emergency. You must have been driving with the windows down in what feels like a hair dryer. How did you even THINK straight enough to fix it?