Real People's Tips and Tricks for Handling Everyday Annoyances

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How to Cancel Any Service Without An Annoying Back-And-Forth

It's an unfortunate fact of modern life that getting rid of a subscription or service of some sort is often much harder than signing up for it. You may find yourself bombarded on a day-to-day basis by a whole bunch of people with different titles and jobs, all trying to persuade you to rethink your unsubscribing. Sometimes, it can get really overwhelming when they just won't let you be.

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That's where this neat trick comes into play: next time you find yourself in a sticky situation such as this one, just tell them something so absurd and absolute that they have nothing to do but cancel your subscription. For this person, their go-to line is, "I am going to prison." The customer service representatives quickly agree to cancel his subscriptions each time.