Most ridiculous argument you've ever had.

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DD15 has just gone swimming training. She spent all morning moaning about how cold the pool is and how she didn't want to go. Before she left I found her kit bag in the hallway containing a damp manky towel, obviously left over from last session.

She refused to get a fresh one and spent 10 mins arguing that I was mistaken and that it was in fact dry!!

Anyone else ?

Before DP moved in, he was visiting my house in the summer and had had a few beers.
He kept saying that we had the heating on, repeating it over and over for hours while I said it was definitely off.
He stropped off to bed and the next morning I said if he carried on like that again he could just stay at his own place.
He just muttered that I should have known that he was asking me to open a window.

Ex fil: I was saying how I went on a school trip to Stonehenge ( I went to school in east London) he said no way could you do a day trip from London to Stonehenge it was too far so impossible, and I was imagining it.🤷‍♀️
Argument went on for a while in the end I gave up you can’t argue with stupid

Pastit 12
Don't you just hate it when you say something and people just do not believe you ?
' nah , that's all wrong ' and you know it's not !
They tend to be the most argumentative people around too

My sister somehow managed to get into an argument with MY neighbour over dwarf sunflowers. I have no idea how it started as I wasn’t there but the neighbour brought it up saying, “ And that sister of yours said there are dwarf sunflowers and there aren’t. They don’t exist” I was not aware of the argument at that point so I was a bit puzzled and said “yes, there are”. And that was the very last time really spoke to me 🤣 she would answer if I said hi but she would pass me in the street and not turn her head if I didn’t say something first.

I had an absolute blazing row with a pal once because she was insisting that cancer had grown on the pâté in her fridge and I was insisting it couldn't possibly be cancer and must just be mouldy. I'm not sure how it escalated into such a huge row, probably an excess of wine, but we laugh about it now (and she still thinks her pâté had cancer).

Last day in our student house, I suggested we go out for lunch. Everyone agreed. Friend said we should book a table. I said I didn't think it'd be necessary but she could if she wanted. Oh no, it had to be me that booked as lunch was my idea. She was adamant that a) a table had to be booked and b) only I could do it.

It was ridiculous. I decided to stick to my guns because she could be too dogmatic and I thought it would do her good to have someone not roll over, plus I didn't care if we booked a bloody table or not.

I had an argument with a friend once about whether I had ever been to Australia or not. She was planning a holiday there, and asked me for advice. I pointed out that I had never been there so couldn’t help. She was adamant that she remembered me going there & planning it all & telling her all about it when I got back. She must have been thinking of someone else as I 100% have never ever been to Australia, but she would not accept it & went on & on at me. I still have all my old passports so offered to go upstairs & get them so she could see I have no entry stamps for Australia in any of them, but she still refused to believe me! She was huffy with me for days afterwards, but then forgot all about it when she decided to go somewhere else for her holiday instead. It was so weird as she was so certain to the point it had me questioning my memory!

DH and I once had a stonking row at Edinburgh Waverly as to whether bagpipes from around the world had originated from one place and the idea had spread, or had developed independently in distant geographical locations. We were supposed to be going to Glasgow for the day but i stropped off and left him there for a bit until i had calmed down,

The best route to get to Preston 😁

My father once refused to speak to my mother for a week because she wouldn't agree that he looked like a young Paul McCartney.

He didn't. He was in his sixties for a start.

Had dd1 and her friend round when they were about 4/5yo.

They came and told me that in their games they were going swimming so they needed to buy a swimsuit, and I was the shop.
So I pretended to fish under the counter and said "what about this one? It's pink with purple flowers on it."
And they both said "no". I continued describing swimsuits until I described one and they both said "yes, I want that one" at the same time.
So I said: "It's a good thing I had fresh stock in today of that one. I have 5 of them."
They both maintained that the <purely imaginary> one I held up first was by far the nicest, and had objections to each of the other "four".
They didn't normally argue at all. 🤣

My daughters once argued over the colour of the sky on a road trip.

Please try not to have an argument when one of you is holding a knife ...

On a bus behind two people loudly arguing once in Aberdeen, going to Seaton (crap estate). Both getting louder and louder. She shouted ‘and fa the fuck wears only green? You look like a fucking leprechaun!’ - he was very offended at this.

Had to hide my face when he stood up to eventually get off, he was indeed dressed entirely in different shades of green.

The crème fraiche / fresh cream debate with my (French) ex. He was adamant that they were the same thing and would not accept that in the UK, they would be two different dairy products. I needed crème fraiche for a recipe and we had a massive row in Sainsbury’s because he point blank refused to buy anything other than bog-standard cream.

@IvanaTinkles that is so funny - I had the exact opposite argument with dh. He said something about when he was in Australia and I said "YOU"VE never been to Australia" He had been there for work twice (while married to me). To this day the kids will say "You've never been to Australia" if I am arguing something with them.

I had an argument with my mum once about whether feathers were alive (she maintained they were!)

Me and XH had a furious row about who was dead - Barrymore or Dale Winton. Turns out I was wrong.

I said that the number 10 bus stopped on road A. My brother said that it didn't. We had a massive argument that ended with him storming off. We were at our parents and I had driven there so he had to catch the train home as he wouldn't speak to me. Idiot.

DD1 and DD2, in the middle of a summer heatwave, standing in the water at the beach having a blazing row. I thought I misunderstood what they were saying and asked what was up and yes, they really were arguing about whose turn it would be to put the first decoration on the Christmas tree this year.

Who does the last onion in the veg rack belong to. I wanted it for a bolognese, he wanted it for salsa
The argument went right back to what we had both cooked in the last 2 weeks and who had used the most onions, and ended up in a row about who should go to the shop and get their own onion.

Argued with a colleague as he declared that the government decides the weather in 3 day cycles and control it. The weather before the government did this apparently was 'different'.

Anything the labour government tries to justify....

Where l used to work, had a disagreement with a colleague about our admsissions policy (secondary school). It is a big part of my job and l said staff of children are above siblings and catchment and she just wouldn't have it. So l eventually shrugged and said ok whatever you say - lf l wasn't 100% sure, l would have kept quiet! About a month later she conceded!

With my ex-husband about how many years there were between June 2022 and June 2024. I said two. Apparently it’s three because you count 2022, 2023 and 2024. My brain just can’t compute that.

He was being a twat, and I would have laughed!