Travelling to London from Dubai airport on a journey that could only be described as hellish – 14 hours stranded at Dubai International Airport without a bar, and only with free wireless internet, Burger King (ugh!) and cigarettes (I don’t smoke) to get me through – was educational for two reasons: I learnt the limits [...]

I recently entered a relationship with an established couple after participating in a threesome. I thought I was just meant be a cameo, however, I was asked back to make numerous guest appearances and voila – I am on the permanent cast list. I was asked to move in with them but refused seeing complications [...]

I have a friend who owes me $30 from a night out around six months ago. He has refused to pay me even though he knows I’m right, trying to shrug it off as a casualty of partying together. Now he is completely avoiding me and I have lost all respect for him. The amount [...]

When I usually go on hiatus one would be forgiven for thinking that I’d offed myself in a fit of desperation – you know, artist’s temperament and all that jazz – yet that’s a little dramatic/tragic even for me. The next likely cause would be that I’ve found myself in a martini-induced stupor, however, that’s [...]

You see it in the movies and it’s enough to make your stomach turn. When it happens in real life, one could be forgiven from standing up from the table, picking up one’s chair and smashing it over the offender’s head in a WWF motion. The crime? Tucking a napkin into one’s shirt. In the [...]

It’s come to my attention that my boss is sleeping with a girlfriend of mine. Now I don’t mind this – we are all adults – however, I hate it when I ask him how his evening was and he tells me it was “quiet”, when I know he has been up all night take [...]

Over this year’s Easter weekend a stain on my bed head was brought to my attention by some random guy I woke up on top of, and was again noticed three months later by somebody I am now seeing regularly. By the coat of dust and my track record, it could have been there for [...]

I was recently taken to lunch with a corporate supplier as a thank you. Unfortunately, my supplier became so inebriated that I (the client), was forced to pick up the (substantial) bill from my personal finances, as they were unable to sign their name. Is there a polite way of recouping the cost of this [...]

I’ll admit it: non-prescription medication can be fun. Yet it’s a whole lot more fun when mixed with booze put in brightly coloured packaging and given an almost-too-cute makeover. Help Remedies is an ingenious meld of pharmaceuticals and clever marketing and design that makes the most mundane of maladies seem attractive. The creators “hope to make medicine friendlier and [...]

With deference to good manners, can you please explain why many telephone callers do not identify themselves? I work in customer service and find people seek information – often about myself – but do not have the common courtesy to give their name. I’m becoming miffed! What can I do? Fez Admirer, Clayton Dear Fez [...]