Most ridiculous complaint.

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I got a supermarket delivery and it arrived about 10 mins before the time slot. I was happy with this but joked with the driver about it being early.

He said some people do make genuine complaint if he is early.

At one house he knocked on the door, the door was opened and he was told to come back at the allotted time. It was 2 mins.

Our Ocado is often a bit early and they always phone to check it's OK. Always fine for me, the only reason I don't book it earlier is because I want to finish my breakfast first! 10 Minutes or so is fine, but somebody else mentioned 2 hours which would mean I'd still be fast asleep - not OK.

I think that people are often angling for partial refunds, my adult DS doesn't feel a deal is complete until he's had some sort of refund. CF

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I love your username, by the way.

I’ve just remembered the dad who shouted at me because his daughter’s ski instructor for her lessons only spoke Japanese and she didn’t speak any Japanese.

We were in Japan.

Why did he shout at you?
And did the booking refer to an English speaking instructor?

Surely everyone thinks that’s rude! We do in London anyway, height of rudeness to bother the other passengers with mindless chitchat.

I responded to an email about a client's son using Steven instead of Stephen. The recipient complained and I apologised signing my full name. They responded saying I should pay more attention to detail. Unfortunately they addressed me as Mrs Mills, which is not even close to my name!

You haven’t got to think of anything. Just say “fine thanks”. Sorted ✔️🙄

Not at all. You obviously have never spent much time in South London where someone can tell you their whole life story while standing at a bus stop.

I've met some really interesting people through 'mindless chatter.' The world is a big place and it's nice to connect and you'll be surprised at what can transpire. A couple of years ago, I was standing in front of Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Can painting in Christies and there was a woman standing nearby who was also looking at it. I happened to throw out how incredible it was that when Warhol died, his estate tried to convince the IRC that he was a minor artist of little to no value for estate tax purposes, and here we were years later looking at a print that was on sale for some colossal amount. It turned out that she was an art dealer from 5 generations of art dealers and was really interesting. We spent the afternoon perusing the art in the showrooms and after an hour or so she told me that a friend of hers has a gallery and was looking for someone amiable to help out with the private views and show openings, chatting to people about art, serving wine and making them feel welcome... and that's how I got one of my casual freelance jobs.

Ok not as dramatic as other ones at all but I have my own business which is membership based. When clients sign up they input their own details with some other information such as next of kin.

One day my member Valerie arrived in person and told me that her sister Clara was very annoyed with me. I had been texting Clara updates yet Clara had never enquired with us so we had obviously bought leads from a local marketing company illegally. I was also coincidentally calling her Valerie in the messages.

I explained those particular messages only go out to existing members and I don't buy leads. I tried to get Valerie to wait while I logged into her account so I could fix her phone number but she became irate staying she absolutely had not inputted her sister's details into her account. I suggested she had put next of kin in the wrong section and she totally lost her temper saying her husband is her next of kin, not her sister, "what a bizarre suggestion." Finally, with a smile frozen on my face I told her about a time when my sister and I had used the same device but remained on the other Google profile, an auto fill had inputted the wrong details.

We ended up canceling her membership (I was very relieved) as she was so offended by my deception.

Nah there are lots of people who think you owe them engagement. The other one is runners who moan if other runners don't say hello to them and say "well we're doing the same thing". Do they say hello to everyone in the supermarket because they're doing the same thing? I usually do acknowledge other runners, but sometimes I am too knackered!

Tesco delivery turned up 45 minutes early when I was still doing bedtime the other week and I was not happy at all. Luckily my husband had got home from the office earlier than usual and was able to deal with it, but on another week I'd have had a real problem. In the past I have been fairly tolerant if it's five or ten minutes early, but this took the piss a bit. People book specific timeslots for a good reason! Tesco do offer a flexible slot which I would use if I was able to be flexible. Otherwise I expect them to come within the timeslot I asked for!

I don’t think the person is trying to be your friend.