You sent a podcast and forgot to call it one

You tap play expecting an update and discover episode one of an unscripted audio documentary.

Why this tiny offence gets expensive

Long voice messages demand linear attention: you cannot skim to the useful sentence without scrubbing around like an audio archaeologist.

Friendships survive a lot, including habits that would get a stranger muted within minutes. A mock invoice is useful precisely because it turns irritation into a joke instead of a summit meeting.

The completely unofficial accounting view

Petty Invoice values the offence at €20.00. The calculation is not economics, law or accounting; it is the ancient discipline of turning irritation into a number with two decimal places.

The charge description reads: Podcast fee for unsolicited long-form audio without chapters, editing or a playback-speed warning.

Recommended administrative response

The podcast fee encourages episodes to acquire editing, chapters or at least a point.

The point is the contrast: a familiar little annoyance gets treated with the solemn paperwork of a finance department. The more disproportionate the bureaucracy, the better the joke.