#870 Rose thorns

Why were roses chosen to represent all that they do? Nothing says love and affection like painfully cutting your finger and bleeding all over the place.

Let's substitute roses for dandelions and not pay a hundred bucks for a few dozen of them.

It's just slightly annoying.

#871 Shoelace knots

How does a beautiful bow turn into an ugly knot anyway? It's like a beautiful butterfly turning back into an awkward caterpillar. It's even worse knowing that even though the creation of this knot isn't your fault, you're the one that has to deal with it.

It's just slightly annoying.

#872 Walking into a public bathroom to find that the toilet you get stuck at wasn't flushed

I'm sure we've all seen some pretty terrible things because of the people in the world who don't deem it necessary to flush. If you have kids already or when you do have kids, it wouldn't be a bad idea to venture into the bathroom first and do some scouting.

How hard is it to pull that little flusher?

It's just slightly annoying.

#873 Ruining your snow angel when you stand up

Ah, a fresh coat of snow. Perfect snow angel making weather and conditions greet you as you step outside. Before you leap into snow heaven, you should keep in mind that the creation of a snow angel means you'll need to remove yourself from within your own creation. Removing yourself from your snow angel is a very delicate process. One wrong step and your wing is disfigured forever. All that hard work for nothing!

It's not easy to keep your angel in pristine condition. You have to get up slowly, making sure to not place your hands on either side of the angel. Once you're standing inside of your snow angel, you can't just walk away, that would be too easy. You have to make a leap away from the angels insides to avoid leaving awkward footprints too close to your angel. If you've successfully done this, congratulations, you made yourself a good looking snow angel. Let's be honest though, how often do you actually take the time and care to do all this? Yeah, I thought so. That's why your angel has feet coming out of its feet.

It's just slightly annoying.

#874 Overly powerful sinks

Overly powerful sinks are the source of much embarrassment. We should be rewarded for washing our hands! Being sanitary is good! Instead, overly powerful sinks splash everywhere, causing a wet mess all over the place. These wet spots will of course end up all over your clothes, leaving you walk into the social world with wet spots all over your pants. You see those people looking at you, whispering and giggling? Yeah, they're talking about the wet spots all over your pants, you pants wetter. 

My advice? Get some time in with the hand dryer. Get to know it really well. It may be the only way to save yourself from the embarrassment this sink has caused you.

It's just slightly annoying.

#875 When someone unexpectedly turns the light on and your pupils are still dilated

Don't look directly into it!

When God said "let there be light," how many people do you think shielded their eyes in discomfort and annoyance? Were there even people at this point? Not important. You get the point.

It's just slightly annoying.

#876 When girls cry after getting their hair cut

I really don't get this one, girls. You went to get a haircut. You even told them how much to cut off. What did you expect?

It's just slightly annoying.

#877 When the magic eight ball doesn't come up with an answer

Come on magic eight ball, you have one job. That job does not include landing on a corner of your fortune telling triangle. Whoever endows eight balls with magic should start inscribing fortunes onto the corners of the triangular prism they entrapped in a ball for all eternity, because we want answers.

Its' just slightly annoying.

#878 When two trucks drive next to each other on the highway

That's fine truckers, nobody else wanted to progress on this highway. Everyone will just wait behind you, going at a less than satisfactory speed, driving in fear as the load that you're carrying swings back and forth on the road.

Truckers actually do have a really hard job, so maybe we should have some sort of leniency. If you're a trucker and you're driving next to another truck on a two-lane highway, I'm going to be slightly annoyed at you, but maybe I'll try to hold back my expletives.

It's just slightly annoying.

#879 One word texts

K.

Bye.

Sup?

To the senders of these texts, I assure you that we, as receivers of these texts, will not feel ignored or offended if you don't send these at all. K. Thanks.


It's just slightly annoying.

#880 Peer reviews

There's so many potential peers to
review with, how exciting.

Teachers love to force cooperation in the classroom. It's not so bad sometimes, but it's almost always bad when the forced cooperation is peer reviews. Peer reviews usually consist of you reading a paper on something you don't care about whatsoever and offering superficial feedback to your "peer" who wrote it. This feedback usually consists of generic phrases like "good intro," "strong writing," "I liked the third paragraph," or "neato, good job."

I've heard the "we're preparing you for the real world, when you'll have to work with people you don't know" reasoning behind assigning peers to review each others papers, but let's be real here. Assigning group work, ehh, that kind of makes sense at least. Making a "peer" read a paper that they couldn't care less about, not exactly productive.

It's just slightly annoying.

#881 When you push down on your mechanical pencil and the lead goes back into the pencil

It's like some higher being doesn't want us to be productive. No complaints here.

It's just slightly annoying.

#882 When the GPS unit doesn't realize that a street is a one way street

Sure, GPS, I'll just turn down this one way street, dodge the oncoming traffic that's angrily honking and cussing at me. I guess, if we do actually turn into oncoming traffic, it's our own fault for mindlessly following the direction of a little box mounted on our windshield. But come on little box, be smarter!

It's just slightly annoying.

#883 The "i before e, except after c" rule

Freight.

Weigh.

Seize.

Weird.

Their.

Foreign.

Either.

+ hundreds of other words.

We've been misled all of our lives. We've been living a lie!

It's just slightly annoying.

#884 The Sidewalk Shuffle

This may also be known as the hallway dance or something of that sort. The Sidewalk Shuffle is the scenario that occurs when you are walking along the sidewalk and someone is coming towards you on the same side of said sidewalk. The Sidewalk Shuffle is what happens when the two of you finally do reach the meeting point.

You go right, they go left. Whoops, stalemate, try again.
You both correct yourself and find yourself in the same stalemate.
You look at the other person with a slight smile and a slight "get out of my way glare" and the problem somehow fixes itself.
That, my friends, is the Sidewalk Shuffle. While it may be slightly amusing...

It's just slightly annoying.

#885 Finding out you left footprints behind you after mopping

If you never turn around to see how
you did, you never have this problem.
Problem solved!

You are your own worst enemy. But hey, give yourself some credit. You mopped! That's amazing. You deserve a spot in heaven, or some candy, or something rewarding.

You didn't deserve the fate that you unknowingly brought upon yourself. After all the hard work it took to mop the floor, a pair of your dirty footprints is the last thing you want to see when you turn around to admire your work. Hang in there and consider it a lesson learned. What's the lesson to pull out of this? Don't bother mopping. I'm sure that floor will clean itself sooner or later.

It's just slightly annoying.