First World Annoyances

[Jibby25]

I hate checking the voice mail on my cell phone. The stupid thing can't just let me listen to my message...it has to go through this whole spiel, with long pauses between most of the words: "You have... one... new message. First... unheard message...sent...today at...two...forty five...p.m... eastern time."

Stupid, but it drives me crazy.

[WhiteTigerCub]

I live alone in my own house.  


I live alone. 

[LazyDaisy]

I hate the "check engine" light in cars. It's the most useless and confusing warning light and can mean anything from the fuel cap is not properly closed to the engine is about to self destruct in really expensive fashion. REALLY? My car has a sensor to tell me if a tire is low on pressure or has a door ajar—including the fuel door ironically—but the engineers just couldn't create two different warning lights — one for "It's really nothing — tighten the fuel cap when you get a chance" and one for "Stop the car NOW and run away!"
 

[alegria]

Mine is seriously petty, but here goes.

Why is it that when people take the effort/time to shop from your wishlist, they can't be bothered to mark off that they bought something from that list?  I understand when it's something simple like a book or DVD that they bought somewhere other than the site where the list was located, but when it's an item from a non-purchase-required list, for pete's sake mark it off!  I received several doubles at Christmas this year because of this.  And I know some people want to surprise me - *I* want to be surprised, so I don't check any of my wishlists after Thanksgiving or after January 14th (my birthday is mid-February).  Most people who know me well enough to use my wishlists know this, so why don't they just use the darned marking function?

[Corvid]

Several books I want to read are not available for Kindle. I just can't bring myself to read them the old-fashioned way.

This is my gripe too.  Why are not all the books I want on Kindle yet?  Especially when I went to get them instantly and read them right now?!

And on that note, why are not all foreign shows that might interest me subtitled and available to me online on demand?  Why am I made to hop all over the internet searching this stuff out, sometimes fruitlessly?

[Betelnut]

Forums that don't have the "last read post" feature or "Show new replies to your posts" feature.  I'm looking at you Adoption.com.

[furrcats]

I'm fat

[Giggity]

I'm fat

Well played, my friend. Title fulfillment FTW.

[Samantha]

It drives me nuts that one of my professors uses the "shadow" effect on SO MANY THINGS in his power point presentations for class. He posts them a day or so before the lecture, and I spend at least an hour going through each power point presentation before I print it. I end up removing the shadow and other fancy text/shape effects from the presentations, plus changing the fonts and placement of text boxes, because he makes them so hard to read! And this is for a marketing class!

I love that he makes them available, but good grief...

[Luci45]

It drives me nuts that one of my professors uses the "shadow" effect on SO MANY THINGS in his power point presentations for class. He posts them a day or so before the lecture, and I spend at least an hour going through each power point presentation before I print it. I end up removing the shadow and other fancy text/shape effects from the presentations, plus changing the fonts and placement of text boxes, because he makes them so hard to read! And this is for a marketing class!

I love that he makes them available, but good grief...

Doesn't he notice and get angry with you?

[Venus193]

I hate landing on a web page where video and audio files automatically start playing.  Most of the time the Stop or Mute buttons are hard to find on these.

[Betelnut]

I'm fat

Well played, my friend. Title fulfillment FTW.

Agreed.  I have the same "annoyance" and it is definitely from being a First World citizen.

[Luci45]

I'm fat

Well played, my friend. Title fulfillment FTW.

Agreed.  I have the same "annoyance" and it is definitely from being a First World citizen.

And then when I pay to go for a walk (treadmill at the senior center or gym), the machines are all being used.

I hate landing on a web page where video and audio files automatically start playing.  Most of the time the Stop or Mute buttons are hard to find on these.

We just leave our speakers OFF at the speaker all of the time. On my laptop, I have to go to the toolbar to turn it on, but it is such a habit now it doesn't bother me.

What I hate is scrolling my mouse over an ad to get to where I want on the page and having an unwanted ad launch without my clicking.

[stkatie00]

This happened a number of years ago, but several fast food chains no longer offer honey to go with chicken nuggets (and my fries, mmm)!!  No, I don't want honey mustard, just honey, TYVM.  Oh well, I really shouldn't be eating it anyway.

And I, too, struggle with my weight-I feel so petty when I'm thinking "I'm hungry, but no, I'm not hungry.  But I want food, because I'm bored. So I think I'm hungry. But there's a CVS right across the street. And so, easy snacky food!" And then I go get something, and I eat it, and I feel terrible because I know I wasn't hungry, just bored, so I thought I was hungry-seriously, what a problem to have, right?

[Betelnut]

This happened a number of years ago, but several fast food chains no longer offer honey to go with chicken nuggets (and my fries, mmm)!!  No, I don't want honey mustard, just honey, TYVM.  Oh well, I really shouldn't be eating it anyway.

I agree.  Honey is the way to go, NOT honey mustard.