What first world problem did you have today?

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ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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I had some fingerprint stains on my Macbook Pro, and had to take a minute out of my busy day to clean them.
 

Newell Steamer

Diamond Member
Jan 27, 2014
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The crossant, egg and cheese sandwiches they had this morning in the cafeteria didn't have any ham,...

:-(

I had a meatless breakfast.
 

fjmeat

Diamond Member
Jan 13, 2010
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I keep hitting the EFFIN NumLock key when entering numbers into tax returns. WHY THE HECK is that key so close to the numbers?

I look up from my paperwork and I see the cursor is way the hell somewhere else!!
 

Gooberlx2

Lifer
May 4, 2001
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Amazon sent me the wrong product. Had to return it for free and get a refund since the product I want is out of stock. Now I have to wait until the xbox one chat adapter is back in stock, or just go to Best Buy.

/wrists
 

Exterous

Super Moderator
Jun 20, 2006
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It was a terrible day today. First I got home from work and dinner wasn't ready for me. Then The Willard didn't have the room I wanted so I had to book a night at the St Regis instead.

FML
 

MrPickins

Diamond Member
May 24, 2003
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The cable for my third monitor at work is just a bit too short, making me move my PC over by an inch, and now I keep bumping it with my chair. :(
 

DigDog

Lifer
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Yet you can make it on the internet and post a reply to the thread. Perhaps you should use that time to fix your credit?

EDIT:

It's not that the first world doesn't have problems, it's that by comparison we have much less to complain about. Try telling your story to people who never even had a home.
obv you didnt really read that. i had no fault. for some reason scottish power thinks i spend x3 what a normal house spends on electricity. and nothing i can do until it goes to court.

second: i have problems relating to my environment. poor afghans who got bombed have it bad their own way, which is by far better than what the aborigenes who live in mud huts have. pfft, bombs. aborigenes don't even have anything bombable, figure if they worry about bombs.
and they have it waaay better than cavemen.

we on the other hand, have to live without transgenic wave modulators and sexbots. HOW?! shame on those Venusians who think they have problems, when we don't even have multiwave decostructor laser transport to worry about!

There is always a scale of problems.

Its ridiculous for me to say "oh well, i got treated like shit at work, but at least i have a house with running water", because that pretty much a given here, in this world.
And its in this world were we determine wether one's problems are real, or BS.
 

rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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I put together an Amazon wishlist for work with all the tools I need. I also buried a Surface Pro 2 in there hoping they would just add everything to the list.

They ordered all the tools I wanted (included 2 Wiha screwdrivers sets!) but not the Surface Pro 2.
 
Nov 29, 2006
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I ran out of coffee at the house and had to take the elevator 4 floors down this morning to get Starbucks in the cafateria. Ugh
 

olds

Elite Member
Mar 3, 2000
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My $3000 plasma tv that is hooked up to my $5000 home theater is suffering from image retention. Damn Chrome browser.
 

silicon

Senior member
Nov 27, 2004
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For me, I got into work before everyone else today. I put the coffee maker on and then got involved in some work and waited about 20 minutes before coming back to the coffee and in that time everyone else had drunk it all and no one bothered to make more, so I had to make a second batch.

that is a serious problem. One time I was unable to connect to the internet because my ISP had a server problem. This caused me some anxious moments in my life. When service was restored the next day i was relieved.
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Kia more reliable than Toyota? Ehhh......

What is the projected value retention % on a Kia after 3 years and 36,000 miles, vs a Lexus?

I would assume that by that point, you would have to pay someone to take it :biggrin:
 

JManInPhoenix

Golden Member
Sep 25, 2013
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I've actually had to answer the phone a few times today at work, instead of wasting time on the internet.
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
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Ran out of vaccuum-cleaner bags so had to try and pull out all the compacted fluff and dirt from the one bag I had so as to make it usable again. Not a pleasant job.