the vertical hostage situation

The performance of insisting a painfully hot curry is merely 'quite nice'.

The last remaining poppadom whose ownership becomes a delicate social negotiation.

A state of voluntary immobility entered into because disturbing a slumbering animal is deemed morally unacceptable.

A physics-defying catastrophe where the stickiest, most absorbent part of a breakfast item violently meets a filthy rug.