I feel like responding to a poll is your opportunity to influence the election, so it’s worth doing. 
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Certainly when I was a volunteer with the Republican Party (back when they were still mostly sane) they strongly encouraged us to participate in polls. They thought it was beneficial / potentially influential.
ETA: Real polls, that is. Not push polls. I angrily hang up on those people.
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Obligatory Yes, Prime Minister vid:
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First, TIL…
…doesn’t surprise me.
Next, many years ago I received a poll call. I don’t remember the specifics, but basically they wanted to know which party I was supporting. I told them Republican, and the very next question was “Would you like to volunteer for [Republican party event]?” …as if the original question was just a filter. I was so annoyed by it. That was the last time I ever answered a poll-call.
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Easy, they are arranged countercookwise.
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Which makes sense because it looks a bit like a counter.
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The procrastination lifestyle does have its costs.
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This is precisely why I suck it up and buy the screen protector at the wireless company’s store and have their person put it on. Not the cheapest way to get a screen protector, but they are better at it than I am, so I’m willing to pay a little extra.
Note: I do sometimes act the part of the helpless female if they don’t offer to do it for me.
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Gender stereotypes can be useful sometimes. When my sister, who’s an aggressive driver, upsets another driver and they get road rage and drive up beside her, she points to her blonde hair.
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I talked with yet another person at my mom’s bank about the incorrect tax slip. She says the slip will be reissued: I will believe it when I see it. 
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I expected something like that out of @ViceFleeble , but your comment really takes the cake!
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I’m freely going to admit, this has [much?] more to do with the specific individual who said this because there’s a backstory between me [and others] and that individual, the details of which I won’t get into, but …
I get when someone’s parent dies, sometimes there’s not really much you can say that’s of comfort or that conveys your feelings, but “much love and light to you” seems like a pretty vapid response.
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If the parent died during a thunderstorm you could change it to “much love and lightning to you”.
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Trying to get medicine. Switched insurances this past year and apparently the new insurer doesn’t contract with the old specialty pharmacy, though I thought I’d cleared everything. Old pharmacy was trying to charge me $30,000.
Thankfully I stopped that before it became a headache. A couple hours of phone calls and I think things are in motion to get my medicine, a few days but not catastrophically late.
Though the new pharmacy was trying to tell me that they wouldn’t cover me, either. I told them, strange, because my insurer forwarded me directly from their phones to you and said you were the only one that handles this. After another 5-10 minutes they figured that one out, and oh yes, I am covered.
I think I may have to pay most of my OOP max in one chunk, but after that my medicine is essentially free all year.
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That is just so absurd.
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I am so annoyed at some of the requests I get from some of our internal business partners.
The most recent one is asking us to reformat a column in a file we provided and send back. They are worried it “might” break their process. No. You can do that easily on your end.
Sometimes it keeps me up at night that these people earn probably 2/3 to 3/4 of what I do, yet I have to continuously monitor the work their team is doing because it won’t get done otherwise. And I wouldn’t normally care whether their work gets done or not, but when they don’t do their part, my process doesn’t work. Have had countless conversations with this team’s leader about the issues we are having, and they’ll get resolved for a while, and then rebound.
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So I got these neutralizer pellets for my furnace. They go into a plastic tube that’s like 4” in diameter and a foot long. Unscrew one end, toss the old pellets, add new ones. Except the genius that installed it glued all the joints, so I can’t unscrew anything. After lunch I’m off to find, I don’t know, a Fernco fitting or the like.
:swear: I didn’t have the coupon terms with me (or any physical coupon; it was a digital coupon). I thought I could get 8 pints, but they insisted it was for only 4. So I just got 4. Had I know the terms, I would have argued harder. Had it said “Limit 1 coupon” would they have said that means only on one pint?
May not even be back in the store before Feb 22, but even if I am and have the original receipt (probably do) that might not help, since it is in a single purchase and the original receipt wouldn’t confirm I tried to buy 8.
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Different Annoyed food store coupon complaint. ShopRite at least recognizes that shoppers are people, so normally I can use a coupon and my spouse use a coupon for the same product on her loyalty card (and even better, that means “my phone number” and “her phone number” so either of us can use the other’s phone number).
At Giant, digital coupons are considered “per family”, so we can’t both use our own copy of the same offer. We don’t use Acme much, but as I recall its coupons are “per customer”.
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