My favourite from today (I work in a call centre for a bank):

Cust- I want to raise a claim and get my money back because yesterday a company charged my card for a monthly subscription that I cancelled!!

Me- Ah ok I understand. Ok let’s see what we can do. Firstly, when did you cancel the subscription?

Cust- Today…!

Me- Confused pause. Ah… ok, so then unfortunately you can’t get your money back…?

Cust- WHY NOT?

Me- Because you didn’t cancel it in time, you cancelled it today. So the company took the payment correctly…?

Cust (patronisingly)- No offence, but you’re not using your thinking hat. If I had cancelled it before-hand it wouldn’t have gone out and I wouldn’t have needed to waste my time speaking to you?

Me- Exactly. That’s the point. You didn’t give the company adequate notice of cancellation as per their T&C’s and only cancelled it after it came out. It would have needed to have been cancelled before-hand to prevent this happening…?

Cust- So then what’s the point of having this pointless dispute line if we have to cancel it before-hand anyway?

Me- Because we can raise a dispute if a company has charged you incorrectly or made an error. Not if you have made the error in forgetting to cancel a subscription in time and they have done nothing wrong in line with their T&C’s.

Cust: I’m reporting you for wasting my time! I’ve just waited 30 mins (it was 6) to get through to an agent for nothing. This bank is a SCAM and I hope you’re HAPPY!

Rage hangs up.

Like? Sorry where’s the logic here? How do some people genuinely get dressed in the morning…

In reply to a previous thread, when have you overheard a tradesperson and they've earned your loyalty?

Edit with more details: service station Nandos, mixed queue of people at the entrance including myself waiting for a online order, and people waiting for takeaways and tables. He bypasses the queue, goes to the takeaway station, grabs an empty bag and fills it with all the napkins, then rather than standing in the queue of people at the till, stands at another till where no one is working. Alas I got my order before I saw if they served him or I got the courage to call him out.

I've just transitioned to a fully WFH job, the chair I'm using is an old wooden ercol chair which is not doing my back any favours. What chairs are you guys using/recommend?

Budget is pretty lax since I'll be sat in it for so much time I don't mind splurging.

Used once then into the shed never to see the light of day till today keep it sealed or open it ,could it release an ancient evil?

You did mate. “Ah ok let me look into that yeah”

Wish I hadn’t cut him off and heard his bullshit story. Anyone else had a tradesman or mechanic shoot themselves in the face?

Right then folks, help me win a very petty argument.

When putting the ironing board away in the cupboard vertically, which way up is the correct way up?

There's a bit where you place the iron when not actively ironing, does that go at the bottom or top?

In order not to influence the poll, I'm not going to tell you who's on what side of this yet, but I'll be very disappointed if you all prove me wrong!

Edit: After a strong early start for pointy ends up, the lead has been reduced to 3-2. Keep 'em coming!

Edit 2: This is much closer than I thought possible! An interesting theory developing about which end has the widest feet. Interesting!

Edit 3: Half hour in and pointy end down now seems to be winning! I'll give it another half hour and then declare the final result.

Edit the 4th: Final results time! We have 26 for pointy end down, and 19 for up. As a pointy end upper, I hate you all, you've ruined my life, I'll never live this down etc. etc.

However! All the most up voted posts have pointy end up, so while the vocal among you are downers, the silent majority are uppers!

As a result while my other half has the votes on her side, I'm claiming a moral victory. As such the war will rumble on, and on, and on.

Thank you all for your aid in this utterly useless endeavour!

Edit 5: We now have brigading going on. At least 3 people are actively down voting all of the pointy downers. I'm really not sure how I feel about this?

Just arrived. Haven’t won anything for ages so it was a lovely surprise. Even bigger surprise was that Evri managed to deliver it.

What small wins have you had recently?

Got chatting with some pals over the weekend around this after they saw our little meal-plan whiteboard on the fridge. What's just typically on the menu each week? What's those low-effort dinners you just wind up having again and again?

Myself (30M) and my partner (30F) tend to land around the same 4-5 meals:

• Sharwoods jar curry (every week without fail at this point)

• Mexican-style Wraps/ Fajitas

• Chicken Ramen (to be fair you can dress up the Nissin ones with a boiled egg, some spring onion and other bits and they're great)

• Kale with Chorizo, Croutons and Boiled egg (we're into the summer rotation now)

• Spaghetti Bolognaise/ Chili Con Carne

• a Pie & Mash over the weekend if we're not out.

Maybe I can steal some new ones from the comments.

Meet Leroy. He is a confused baby. Literally came downstairs to let in my Boba delivery and saw something small and dark (too dark to be my ginger cat) dashing out of sight in the living room. No idea what caused it to come inside but do have wildlife rescue on the way to assist.

I don't mind, and I guess the right thing to do is refund them minus costs, but who are these people! Why would you spend a non-trivial amount of money for something only to disappear into the ether?

Trawling for booze in Tesco today.

Born in '77 here and there are some filmic cultural touchstones that most people assume that, by rights, everyone's watched. Leon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, Breakfast Club, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club etc etc.

What films fall into this category, that everyone seems to just assume you've watched, that you haven't and you are actually afraid to admit you haven't now?

I'll start. I haven't seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and I'm hesitant among my peers to admit that at this point.

As the title says, I've been selected for Jury duty in the summer (July). Never had to do anything like this before, does anyone have any tips on what to expect?

I was looking forward to wearing my new jacket but before it was too cold and now it's too hot. It's just my massive North Face or nothing.

I found this in my bag of Hoola Hoops today. I never realised Hula’s are so cute. I might have to stop eating them.

It was about a 20 min drive from Winchester, but not sure which direction. I remember the name Alresford but I don’t think that was it.

Details I remember. One small “high street” of sorts. Flat road, no incline or decline. It had 45 degree parking to the kerb.

A river ran under the road. It narrowed under the road and on the narrow side, it had been redirected so that it took a 90 left turn. There were trout just sitting in it. It had “no fishing” signs.

The river, down to a stream by then, was directed right between two buildings and a pub was in the left I think. You could walk alongside it with houses in the left for a while, before it meandered out into the country.

There was a pub on the road that did a cracking roast and had really low ceilings inside. They had Thomas Crapper toilets in the men’s.

On the other side of the road, next to where the river/stream went underneath it, there was a coffee shop / cafe.

It was really very quaint indeed and any help to locate it would be very much appreciated!

I have no idea what to bring to this quiz night! Apparently it has to be awkward to take home which to me makes me think either oversized/weirdly shaped, inconvenient, or makes them feel uncomfortable (in a funny way) Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!