yes, especially olaf and his sodding blue flask.
oh i found the flask... no problem there. but would he take it? no.
"have you found my flask yet"
"yeah mate its in my hand... take it... go on"
"oh well, keep looking"
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"take the sodding flask!!!"
later in the game i found if i dropped things, talked to people, then picked them up again the quest sort of... jolted into action.