Some of your "first world problems"

[american sinner]

I read this the other day when it started and I told myself I'd reply when I caught myself being annoyed. I gotta confess today...

First world problem #343

Being too lazy to make change day to day
filling a big bucket at home
being annoyed that I have to DRIVE to somewhere with a change machine cause I live in such a developed city that I have adequate public transportation

[Davis Webb]

Bending over to tie up my shoes. Or bending over for anything.

[rhancox]

Originally Posted by architype

Toys and tools encapsulated in a thick shrink fit plastic sarcophagus. You have to use an X-acto knife or razor blade to slice through it and you just know one of these times you are going to lose a finger or a pint of blood.

And they put twist ties on a loaf of bread.

[muscmp]

cell phone, cable and internet companies who continually try to squeeze more money out of you for less service and NO customer service.

play music!

[harmonics101]

First World Problem ?

Having Adobe Reader and Oracle Java needing an update every other day.

Harmonics101

[MikeVB]

Spare-tire sized toilet paper in public restrooms made from 120 grit emery cloth. And it's mounted flat against the wall so you can't roll it around your hand a couple times flatten for use. You have to just keep pulling off 8" strips until your have a giant puffball in your hands.

[rhancox]

Originally Posted by MikeVB

Spare-tire sized toilet paper in public restrooms made from 120 grit emery cloth. And it's mounted flat against the wall so you can't roll it around your hand a couple times flatten for use. You have to just keep pulling off 8" strips until your have a giant puffball in your hands.

For that matter....

Public Restrooms

[Jim.S]

First time I have looked in this section and this thread cracked me up. This line stole the show for me though and made me spit my coffee

Originally Posted by HHP

not corncobs.

Every time the guy next door starts up his leaf blower in the dry season hurling noise, dust and debris over my fence into my swimming pool, through my house and onto my clothes line I want to introduce him to a broom in a uncomfortable way.

Jim

[inky]

Originally Posted by rhancox

And they put twist ties on a loaf of bread.

And it's been twisted on anticlockwise!
My wife does this all the time, I'm sure she does it on purpose.
Also, she hangs the toilet roll so it rolls from the inside (against the wall)

[Aldwyn]

Repairmen who give you a window of 6 hours...

"I'll be there sometime between 8am and 2pm."

[mc1]

my internet connection was especially flakey today. i dealt with it well, but it dropped me numerous times. just sayin'.

Originally Posted by architype

Toys and tools encapsulated in a thick shrink fit plastic sarcophagus. You have to use an X-acto knife or razor blade to slice through it and you just know one of these times you are going to lose a finger or a pint of blood.

hey architype,

i've actually cut my fingers on the hard plastic. ouch. i now have something a little like this, and it works great. a first world solution to a first world problem.

[Aldwyn]

Originally Posted by inky

Also, she hangs the toilet roll so it rolls from the inside (against the wall)

If I dont do this, one of my cats will unroll the entire roll. I cant tell you how many brand new rolls of TP wound up in a pile on the floor.

And that annoys me, because I really like my TP to roll from the front!

[rhancox]

Originally Posted by inky

And it's been twisted on anticlockwise!
My wife does this all the time, I'm sure she does it on purpose.
Also, she hangs the toilet roll so it rolls from the inside (against the wall)

My father-in-law twists it on counter-clockwise too. People who do this are not mechanical. They have no concept of right to tighten, left to loosen. Drives me nuts.

The toilet paper thing irritates me too. It's unnatural to have it roll off from behind. When it's on "backwards", how often do you find yourself rolling it back and forth trying to find the end? When it's on correctly, the end should be visible. It's a simple matter of efficiency. Maybe it's just a couple of extra seconds, but over a lifetime, think of all the time you've wasted looking for the end of the paper. It's tragic, I tell ya!

Think about it:

Lets say you live to be 75. You don't start using the toilet paper yourself until you're 5 (for the sake of discussion). So that's 70 yrs of using toilet paper. Lets say you go every day with the odd day where you don't so each year you go 350 days out of 365. You spend two seconds each time you go, looking for the end of the toilet paper because everyone in your life has always beaten you to it and put the roll on backwards.

So that's 2 seconds a day, for 350 days, for 70 years. That's 49,000 seconds of your life wasted. That's 816 mins. That's 13 hrs. That's practically a whole day of being awake!

Who would want to spend a whole day rolling the toilet paper 'round and 'round?

[architype]

Originally Posted by mc1

my internet connection was especially flakey today. i dealt with it well, but it dropped me numerous times. just sayin'.



hey architype,

i've actually cut my fingers on the hard plastic. ouch. i now have something a little like this, and it works great. a first world solution to a first world problem.

Thanks. How did you get that tool out of it's shrink wrap coffin?

[mc1]

Originally Posted by architype

Thanks. How did you get that tool out of it's shrink wrap coffin?

i bought two.