First World Annoyances

[M-theory]

I love the concept of first-world problems. I once had an experience that encapsulated it for me: I made a turn too sharply in my car, and my iPod fell from the sun visor and hit me in the head.

I lol'd.

[Fleur-de-Lis]

I love the concept of first-world problems. I once had an experience that encapsulated it for me: I made a turn too sharply in my car, and my iPod fell from the sun visor and hit me in the head.

In fact, pretty much anything involving an iPod is inherently a first-world problem.

My version of this is having to grab the dash-mat for the GPS when I make a sharp turn. 

Emma

[Alida]

Spoons in my iced tea glass! I don't want sweet tea. I make a point to ask for unsweetened tea. And almost every single time, the tea glass comes with a tall spoon in it that I won't use and now have to figure out a place for.

[QueenofAllThings]

Oh, so many.
The computer slows down.
The energy company comes by once a year and shuts off my power for an hour (maintenance) and I can't run the dishwasher!
The lawn guy is a few hours late, so I listen to the leaf blower all afternoon (as opposed to the morning, when I'm not home)
Hard water.

I could go on ...

[tjika]

when they renew the recipe for a product i like as it is. There are so many products i don't like anymore because they are now have a 'better' recipe.

One example M&M's. they changes the recipe I think 10 years ago and I still don't like them. I now only get them when I'm on another continent as they haven't changed the recipe everywhere.

[BatCity]

Anything at all to do with airplanes!

[Bethalize]

Oh, I like this concept!

Why do I have to buy my luxuriously carbonated water in bottles? Why can't I have it carbonated from a tap? Is there a kitchen unit for carbonation on tap? Not a soda stream, that's more work.

[LeeLee88]

Nothing's thawed for dinner, so I would have to use the microwave to thaw my food and then cook it on the stove/in the oven/whatever.  I'll be lazy enough to just not eat because that's all just too much work.  Yes, I will starve for lack of motivation to feed myself >_<.

[Dark Annie]

I want this book and this book but they're both so expensive at my local Borders (AU $36.00 each) and I don't want to order them on the net because I want them NOW. Even though I have 100 000 000 000 000 other books to read.


I want this book too while I'm at it.

[RocketScientist]

I'm writing a scientific paper right now and out of the 10,000 references I'm using only three are not available to download over the internet.  I have to actually go to the library and check them out.  Oh, the inconvenience!

[Carnation]

i hate hate hate when a can had a pull tab and the tab breaks off and you have to use the can opener anyway.   

Yes! This!

I also hate long receipts. I bought two things at the drugstore, and the receipt was over a foot long, and then I had to fold it up a zillion times to fit it into my wallet, which was already stuffed with dozens of foot-long receipts.

Oh goodness.  A popular big box store (rhymes with "arrears") gives you several strips of receipt paper printed with "coupons" for stuff you never buy.   Jewelry is a recurrent theme.

You can't even opt out.   I pay my bill in person and always walk out with a handful.

[lilfox]

I'm writing a scientific paper right now and out of the 10,000 references I'm using only three are not available to download over the internet.  I have to actually go to the library and check them out.  Oh, the inconvenience!

OT - I gave a presentation once and a fairly prominent researcher in my field asked me afterwards why I hadn't cited so-and-so (a former student of his), as his work was very much in line with mine.  I said oh! I thought I had done a really thorough lit review and never saw any of so-and-so's papers.  Prominent guy says well, that's because the guy never published his stuff.     Yes, Prominent guy acted like he was helping me out by letting me know about similar work but really he just wanted to complain about his former student's laziness.
/OT

Another annoyance:  work teleconferences that are delayed X minutes because of technical difficulties, people who still don't know how to Mute when they're not speaking, and people who put the telecon on hold when they have hold music piped into their phone system.

[Virg]

Outdoor Girl wrote:

"When someone leaves time on the microwave in the lunchroom.

I always throw my meal in, start hitting buttons, realize nothing is happening, take a few seconds to realize WHY nothing is happening and then hit clear, the time I need and then start.

Why can't you (general) just hit clear if you take your stuff out before the time is done??"

Oh, you're going to hate me, then.  I've pulled a prank more than once at my office, where I'll get my stuff out just as my intended target shows up to nuke their lunch.  I'll punch the power button and set the microwave to 30 percent power, and then leave, and they'll punch in the time and start it, which works normally.  Then they'll wonder why their lunch is still mostly frozen when they take it out.

Leafy wrote:

"Also, why can I do all my banking on-line except for getting money out? I have to leave my house to do that and it's such a pain. I want money to come out of my computer!"

I want to introduce you to the magic of debit cards.  No need for online banking any more!  Now you can click a few buttons and your computer will tell you right away that you have no money, rather than having to go to the bank and have a person tell you you're overdrawn.  Such convenience!

Alida wrote:

"Spoons in my iced tea glass! I don't want sweet tea. I make a point to ask for unsweetened tea. And almost every single time, the tea glass comes with a tall spoon in it that I won't use and now have to figure out a place for."

Drop it on the floor? 

Virg

[missanpan]

Sort of related to the microwave . . . the copier. 

It drives me nuts when I am trying to make one copy of something and realize that the person who made 100 copies before me never cleared the copier.  I just start jabbing at the stop button cursing under my breath.

[rose red]

The copier thing drive me nuts too.  Also makes me nuts when there's no paper left, so you put some in and then it start finishing printing the previous person's job.  Why can't they bother checking to see if the whole thing printed out before grabbing and leaving?