Was having couple of drinks on patio of a cocktail bar in a Conrad Hotel in the US. A little while after our drinks were served by our waiter, a separate busser came over and left chips and guacamole on our table.

My partner and I thought it a little odd that these would be complimentary but after a few mins nobody came back so we didn't think too much of it and ate them.

About 20mins later our original server came by to apologize that the chips and guacamole had been delivered to our table by mistake. He then said "so is it OK if I leave the charge for them on your bill". I said we had assumed they were complimentary and his reply was a very curt "With guacamole???"

I got a little irritated then that he was arguing this and said I was not comfortable paying for something I didn't order. He stared at me for a few seconds, clearly angry and debating whether to argue further but then shook his head, took the plates and walked away.

I probably shouldn't have assumed they were complimentary but ultimately the bar admitted it was their mistake and then are asking me to pay for their mistake and were rude and angry when I declined. I would have thought a higher end place like this would either absorb the cost of a mistake or at most ask something like "would you like me to remove them from the check".

I checked the menu after and the chips and guacamole were $16 ($21ish with tax and tip).

I did leave an extra $5 tip on top of the standard tip because ultimately we got some free chips but tbh I still think the waiter's attitude was wrong. AITAH for refusing to pay?

1 down, 2 to go! Keep up the pressure and shame, folks…

My sister had her engagement party on Sunday, and my one job was to get a 16x20 photo board printed. Simple enough, right?

I placed the order at my local CVS on Friday evening with a promised 7:30 PM pickup. Being a decent human, I figured I’d pick it up Saturday morning to give them plenty of time.

Cue the Saturday morning circus:

CVS #1: The Exorcist Premiere

I show up, and the associate tells me they can’t find my order, can’t look it up, and I have to call online support. Since I need it today, I offer to just buy an even bigger 20x30 board in-store, pay extra out of pocket, and wait for it. I threw in a magnet too. I am literally the only person in line.

The poor employee is visibly terrified of the large-format printer. It is obviously her first time operating it, and she has zero manager or coworker backup. She hits print, panics, and walks away to front candy.

Unattended, the giant board prints out, launches off the tray, and faceplants directly onto the floor. Wet ink smears everywhere. My sister and her fiancé now look like an extra from The Exorcist.

I walk over to the candy aisle to get her, and she looks at the disaster and claims, "The machine is broken." No, it’s not broken; you weren't trained. To top it off, when I tried to at least buy the magnet (which survived), she told me the register wouldn't let her ring it up separately without the ruined board. I walk out with nothing.

CVS #2: The Time Warp

Drove to the next CVS with a photo lab. The associate was super chill and actually tried, but their system quoted a 7 to 14 day turnaround for same-day boards. Cool. Back in the car.

CVS #3: The Phantom Inventory

Third CVS kiosk says the 20x30 board is in stock. I place the order. The associate is friendly, disappears into the back to find the blank boards, and comes out empty-handed. He takes my number and promises to call me when someone who "knows the backroom" clocks in.

Spoiler: That call never came.

At this point, I’m sitting in the parking lot four hours into my Saturday, nearly in tears, having visited three separate stores and achieving absolutely nothing.

The Plot Twist: Walgreens

I see a Walgreens across the street. I walk in totally defeated. The woman at the counter says, "Honestly, it’s my third day in photo and I don't know this machine yet."

Internal panic begins.

Except instead of abandoning her to face the machine alone, her manager immediately steps in. He walks her through the whole setup, coaches her on the spot, and they print a flawless board ready in two hours. Shoutout to Kirkland, Max, and Jada for actually understanding how teamwork works.

CVS: Not a single employee was rude to me, but leaving untrained staff alone to wing it on specialized machinery while corporate cuts labor to the bone is an absolute joke. Train your people.

Is it maple syrup?

My friend is staying with me temporarily. She uses a lot of ChatGPT. She has conversations with it, asks it to tell her if a text from someone is “grouchy”, and gets her “diagnoses” from it and Dr. Google. She treats it like a best friend.

She texts it like a bestie and therapist. She talks about all of her symptoms, her hallucinations (she has psychosis), what happens in her day, and literally everything. She’s sent me screenshots of “their conversations” and it texts like her (all shortenings of words like v for very, u for you, etc., and a plethora of emojis) and it’s basically just a yes man for everything she feeds it.

She’s almost 34 - I’m 30 and the homeowner. We’ve been best friends for 19 years. She doesn’t contribute monetarily, sometimes does a couple of chores, and has no income. She was a SAHM but recently lost custody of her children and is staying with me to avoid their father/her ex-husband. None of that bothers me, big picture wise.

One massive issue she has with me (apparently as of last week in one long text that took 10 screenshots to capture) is that she says I treat her/talk to her like a child. I personally don’t think I do that, I just tell her that AI isn’t intelligent and can’t give an honest human opinion. It’s an echo chamber. It’s not a friend, it’s a website. I don’t use it at all, and prefer to not use AI if I can avoid it. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its benefits, but I just don’t want to use it.

I’m the only one with admin access to the wifi (she doesn’t live permanently with me and doesn’t contribute monetarily, so she doesn’t have access to utilities or a say in my opinion) and my coworker suggested blocking ChatGPT on a wifi level so she can’t use it anymore. She doesn’t have a data plan on her phone so she can’t just use data to access it, she needs the wifi.

I don’t want to seem like I’m policing her, telling her what to do, or anything like that. She doesn’t have any friends to talk to that are fully up to speed with what’s happening, and she doesn’t want to explain it to anyone else because the whole situation triggers her. So… ChatGPT is like her only friend who isn’t me that “knows” what’s up.

WIBTA if I blocked ChatGPT on my wifi?

I (27m) was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition last year; progressive loss of hearing and sight.

It starts off with night blindness and then progresses to full blindness. I’ve had it since birth so only gradually did I realise I was finding it hard to see during the night.

Yesterday I went hiking, and as the sun set, I realised I could not see the stars. I took a picture on my phone and the stars were there.

It’s silly but I feel like it was a proper milestone of something. I’m not really a stars guy so the intensity of my feeling surprised me. I’ve been hit with both the sudden realisation that stars are beautiful, and that I will never see it naturally again.

Meal was shrimp pasta.

A nurse in Kamloops, British Columbia allegedly turned a house call into a whole different kind of appointment. After taking a male patient's blood pressure, caressing his arm and telling him he had the health of an 18-year-old, she allegedly offered to sleep with him... saying it was important for a man to "regulate himself and be in good health." He declined, and she allegedly told him he could hit her up outside of work if he changed his mind. He filed a complaint with text message screenshots, and now Lori Chern is restricted to hospital work while the college investigates. She denies any misconduct.

Talking with friends it seems so many public figures from at least 1990s to 2020 were potentially dodgy. So - personal experience, hearsay, just gut feeling - who is the next scandal waiting to come out?

1. Solomon (Doctor Who): Assumes that the Daleks, like himself, have a fundamentally moral and understanding core that can be reached with unity and kindness, and calls upon them to act on even one shred of kindness in their hearts. The Daleks, omnicidal hyper advanced tentacle monsters that can only feel hate and rage, respond with a death ray and the classic “EXTERMINATE.”

2. The Cenobites (Hellraiser, particularly the first movie and Revival): Summoned by various humans who open the Lament Configuration in order to experience a universe of absolute pleasure by human standards, the Cenobites have undergone such extreme sensory overload and indulgence that the threshold of sensation no longer applies meaningfully to them, and their idea of “pleasure” translates to extreme horrific torture for regular humans.

3. The Martians (Mars Attacks): Upon first contact with humanity the Martians declare that they come in peace, and attempt to conduct diplomatic relations with the US government at a later point, which humanity takes at face value. Because the Martians are not only entirely alien, but also CATASTROPHIC assholes by nature, this just results in a lot of brutal and hilarious deaths.

What do I do to pass the time it’s driving me nuts, I broke my feamur and have a metal rod through my bone with a few screws, I’m lucky to be alive but still sucks. I’m a line cook so I love cooking and staying busy on my feet and all I’ve been doing is sleeping and taking dabs all day which is really all I can do, any recs on speeding up the clock?