Ok I know in the grand scheme of things this is not a major problem but just some opinions would help see if I've become a raging lunatic or not.
So I drive a lot for work and I fill up in a range of garages called 'Shop n Drive' who have those Costa Coffee machines. They've started doing a card whereupon you collect stamps each time you buy a coffee and get a free coffee when you have six stamps. ( I hope you're following). A few weeks ago I bought 2 coffees for myself and dp and that girl behind the counter couldn't find the stamp so initialled two spaces on my card. Cut to yesterday when I called in at a different station and got a coffee, took it to the cash register and handed over my new card. The guy behind the counter looked at it and said 'I'm not accepting that, you've clearly filled in two of these yourself'
Now, if he'd been a bit more polite and explained that he couldn't take it because the stamps were missing I'd have accepted and paid for it, but I explained that the girl couldn't find the stamper so she had initialled it. He again accused me of filling it in myself. So in a fit of rage I refused to pay for for my coffee. Part of me couldn't believe that we were arguing over a £2.10 cup of coffee but another part of me was outraged at the accusation and I stood my ground. He then began to shout at me that if I wasn't paying for my coffee he was confiscating my card! He took it and wouldn't give it back!
I then asked him to write down the details of his manager and he wrote one name on a bit of paper. It was a foreign name and I asked if this was the first or last name and he barked 'first' at me as a walked out past a queue of customers. I've telephoned the garage today but the manager was not in and the girl I spoke to said she couldn't pronounce the last name of the manager and she didn't know how to spell it. Cue an angry email to the Head Office.
So AIBU to be so wound up over a cuppa?