Took me 6 hours to hunt down a 3 line plot hole, the fix was one word

I was writing a chapter where a character crosses town to return a library book, but earlier I had her car in the shop. I kept rewriting the whole scene, adding bus routes, walk descriptions, even a rainstorm. Then I realized I just needed to change the book to a DVD she could mail back. Six hours for a single word swap. Does anyone else waste entire afternoons on details that end up being trivial, or am I just bad at stepping back?

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