Me calling customer service for the 12th time
A Dormammu, I've Come to Bargain post.
You ring the internet provider. You're put on hold. You ring again. And again. On the ninth call they give you the discount just to make it stop. Your child asks for a biscuit. No. They ask again. No. They ask a hundred and four more times. The biscuit is theirs. You resubmit the expense claim with the same receipt every week. Accounts has started to look tired. You've rewritten the same email to your landlord eleven times. Each time you're a little more polite. The boiler is fixed. **Why it caught on:** at the end of Doctor Strange (2016) Strange flies into the Dark Dimension, traps himself and Dormammu in a time loop, and keeps arriving with the same line - "Dormammu, I've come to bargain" - each time he's killed, until Dormammu gives up. Persistence by sheer repetition is something everyone has tried on a call centre.