What first world problem did you have today?

[Muse]

nice postal lady rang door bell twice. i decided to not answer because I was just waking up. it was a signature delivery... now I have to actually GO to the post office to pick up whatever awesome thing I ordered. I order so much shit I forget what I order.

Every single thing I order has its own record in a data table. If something doesn't come, I will know. When it does come, I note the date and delivery service. Any issues of note, I record for future reference, usually including the item name, order page, date of order, payment details.

 

[Muse]

Scratched my Nexus 4 a little bit on top that you can't see unless you hold it at an angle under moonlight.

Wind storm about a year ago caused neighbor's tree to impact my decrepit chimney, knocking off around 8 bricks (I heard this happen but it was dark and didn't see the damage until next day). There was damage to roof ($2000 repair), and several dents in my car, which was parked in the driveway. Got estimates to repair car but figure not to bother, it's over $4000, the car's a 1997 sedan. Called the manager of the building next door (it's their tree) and they had the tree trimmed. Messaged them some months later and they had it trimmed again, it's a monster tree. I could have arborist cut off stuff on my side but it would be tricky to figure it out. The trunk pushes the fence over our property line. I wish they'd remove the tree but the manager said the owner doesn't want to.

 

[pete6032]

I bought something from Facebook Marketplace and went to pick it up today and the seller very clearly gave me the wrong address. They game me an address 2 houses down on the other side of the street. I stopped there and the homeowner said they had no idea why I was there. I verified the address and they asked who I was looking for and I told them the name of the seller and they said go down two houses on the other side of the street, that's them. So I did and that was indeed the sellers actual address. Best I can tell is the seller was using random nearby addresses to vet potential buyers before giving her own address. I left her a one star review because she was a total ass about it. I told her she gave me the wrong address and she said nothing at all.

 

[Pohemi]

Autopay

My town has charged me a lot more than that for forgetting to pay on time for my quarterly refuse bill. Bastards. It's a scam, they don't support autopay.

I do autopay on everything that I can except for my ISP. If I end up getting net through Frontier, I'll probably do it. But both Spectrum and Comcast have bad anecdotal histories with double-charging accounts on autopay among myself, family members, and friends. I don't trust them not to do stupid shit. It's an automated system and they still manage to fuck it up.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have autopay on everything, I would hate having to constantly manually pay bills and manage remembering each one. There's just too many. I login to my bank regularly to check what comes out and if anything is not right then I would catch it then.

 

[Muse]

I have autopay on everything, I would hate having to constantly manually pay bills and manage remembering each one. There's just too many. I login to my bank regularly to check what comes out and if anything is not right then I would catch it then.

I have my statements sent to me USPS. That way they don't escape my attention. I open them all and inspect. Yeah, I kill a few trees.

 

[snoopy7548]

I made French toast but I have no maple syrup.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

My Comcast internet connection is being very unstable.

This is annoying. Random websites timing out is the biggest issue.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Random websites timing out is the biggest issue.

Try ipconfig /flushdns

then

ipconfig /renew

OR if that fails:

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility if these commands piss off your ISP.

 

[Chaotic42]

I really want to make Cobalt (II) Stannate, but I need equipment I don't have and don't really have a place for. Such a great color:

 

[jpiniero]

Had a cop get behind me so I decided to take the shorter yet slower road instead the way I normally go.

He goes with me. I am pretty sure he was trying to catch me ridin dirty speeding.

 

[pete6032]

Can't enjoy myself outside with all these dang yellow jackets buzzing around.

 

[sdifox]

Can't enjoy myself outside with all these dang yellow jackets buzzing around.

That's as third world as it gets.

 

[lxskllr]

Can't enjoy myself outside with all these dang yellow jackets buzzing around.

Of course you can! Get a wiffle ball bat, and go crack some yellowjackets. They make a satisfying sound when you connect, and it'll improve your hand/eye coordination.

 

[VashHT]

Of course you can! Get a wiffle ball bat, and go crack some yellowjackets. They make a satisfying sound when you connect, and it'll improve your hand/eye coordination.

I've found tennis rackets work quite well in this regard, might not make as fun a sound but far easier to land a hit I'd guess.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Electric rackets are so fun. I need to bring mine in at work the bugs have been bad in the office, I think there's some sort of life cycle going on with the flying ants, getting tons of those.

 

[Indus]

Wife freaking out over a big burgandy colored spider on our front door. Said if it bites.. it can be lethal.

Looked like this..



I'm like okay.. I'll keep an eye over it so it doesn't run into the house..

Told her to get the work gloves, she came back with a sledge hammer.

Told her to get the work gloves, she comes back with a sawzall.

Told her to get some paper towels, she comes back with my bath towel.

Arachnophobia.. yep my wife has it!!

Had to use my flip flops to destroy that terrorizing spider.. it's in several pieces now..

Thank you for your sacrifice spider.. Wife is much calmer now..

 

[lxskllr]

Brown widow? I don't see many venomous spiders. I've seen a recluse, and I /may/ have seen a black widow, but that could've been a dream, cause I can't place where I saw it, and I think that would be something I'd remember.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I do think that bright colors are sort of a warning from nature. I've had to trap at least two small red spiders in a transparent water bottle when they were happily weaving a web across the bathroom wall like they owned all of it. Then I went out and emptied the bottle into the garbage chute.

 

[Chaotic42]

Ordered a bunch of lumber from Home Depot, but they left out a few things. I'm working with their chat client, but it keeps timing out while they look up my order and there's no way to get back to the previous conversation.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Was supposed to get paid today but something happened with our direct deposit and now won't get paid until tomorrow. I try to keep only the minimum for bills in my checking account so I don't go crazy and just spend money randomly, and I was unaware there was a problem with the deposit, but now I've got a couple of OD charges. Will have to call the CU and explain what happened and see if they'll reverse it.

 

[Indus]

Just saw my home insurance bill..

Up 25% over last year..

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Home insurance has been slowly creeping up while car insurance slightly down. I didn't even realize this until I called to put insurance on my new truck. My overall insurance price has gone up over the years but the actual truck portion of it was only like $40/mo. House is over $100 now. Back when I first got insurance the house was like $40 and truck was over $100. They basically switched places.

I guess the cost of building materials and labour is why. To rebuild a house it would cost more now than it did to build it originally.

Inflation is a bitch. Everything goes up except for pay cheques.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was going to call my roofer soon to let him know the roof is not leaking anymore since the last fix, so they can arrange to come fix the drywall damage.

Well just now, it started to leak again! It's so weird, we had several torrential downpours and days where it rained non stop and it didn't leak, and now it decided to leak again. I guess it really seems to depend on the angle it's coming down or what.