#904 Figuring out which end of the trashbag is the top when trying to open it

Consider yourself lucky if your trashbag
has this elastic band giveaway.

So simple, but so hard. Don't worry, if someone sees your plight, lick your fingers and mutter something about how slippery trash bags are and how hard they are to open because of that. Works every time.

It's just slightly annoying.

#905 Pennies not working in a parking meter

Everyone keeps change in their car. It's the smart thing to do. You never know when you'll have to unreasonably pay to park your car on the side of the street. Parking meters are an annoying idea/invention (but we'll save that for another post), and it's slightly annoying that they don't accept pennies.

Sure, pennies are already kind of useless...but they should be able to buy you at least one minute. How many times could you have used those three or four extra minutes in the meter? The coin collection spot in the car is always comprised of mostly pennies. You have to dig through a sea of copper before you can find any useful silver. You'd probably be able to pay for at least 2 hours worth of parking if each penny bought you one minute. Of course, you can't use those pennies. Instead, the pennies will just pile up, uselessly, taking up space in your change collection, dirtying your fingers every time you need to dig through them to find something to feed the meter.

Come on Mr. Meter. You'll eat my nickels and dimes and quarters and feel full, but you'll eat my pennies and not feel anything at all?


It's just slightly annoying.

#906 Pop-up ads

I must be having some crazy good luck with the computer lately, because I've been the millionth person to open a page so many times. I've won more iPods and money than I even know what to do with. And I wouldn't have ever known without the help of pop-ups. Sometimes I'm not the millionth person to open the page, and instead I get to play a fun little interactive game. When I win, I'm rewarded with a pop-up! Hurray!

I wonder if pop-up advertisement creators are slightly annoyed or actually impressed when pop-ups come up on their screen.

It's just slightly annoying.

#907 Out-of-state drivers

I'm gonna have to write you
up for driving like an idiot
in my state.

No matter what state you hail from, no matter how fast you drive, no matter how well you drive, no matter what your destination is, no matter what, one thing will always remain true: out-of-state drivers are worse drivers than you.

When determining whose fault a mishap on the road is, it is and always will be their fault. If you're in your home state, don't worry, traffic rules apply a little bit less to you.

They're just slightly annoying.

#908 When people write with caps lock on

IT'S LIKE YOU'RE YELLING NON STOP. THERE'S NOT EVEN A NEED FOR EXCLAMATION POINTS...AMAZING!

ARE YOU ANGRY? ARE YOU EXCITED? ARE YOU NOT SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOUR LETTERS? WHO KNOWS?

If you want someone's attention, don't do it with the caps lock key on.

IT'S JUST SLIGHTLY ANNOYING.

#909 When someone sits in front of you at the movie theatre and you have to put your feet down

Movies should be watched comfortably. I'm talking feet up, laid back, and a bucket of popcorn by your side. It sounds like this is only possible in the comfort of your own home, but it is possible when you're in the movie theatres. It's quite satisfying when there is no one sitting in front of you and you can kick those legs up onto the seat in front of you.

But who's that walking up the stairs? Why are they pointing to the seat in front of you and whispering to their friend? No, no, no. It can't be. Yup, these seat snatching movie watchers are coming right for your comfort zone. Of course you can't say anything to them, you picked the middle of the row, a prime movie watching location. How can you blame them for doing the same? Don't look down, because 9 out of 10 times, you'll see them resting their feet comfortably on the empty seats in front of them.

It's just slightly annoying.

P.S. Also slightly annoying, theatre vs theater. Movie websites contradict each other.

#910 Pooping right after you shower

On the right: a water fountain for your
butt, also known as a bidet.

This may be considered one of the more PG 13 posts, but these two truths are undeniable: everybody poops, and when something is slightly annoying, it's slightly annoying, and that's that.

Without getting into too much detail, pooping right after a shower just feels like there was no point of taking a shower. It feels like getting dirty right after getting clean. It's a poorly timed, counter productive bodily function to say the least. I think the French are one step ahead of the game with their bidets. To all of you French readers, I tip my hat to you and acknowledge that perhaps this post is not for you.

It's just slightly annoying.

#911 Refolding a map

This is a slight annoyance that no mere mortal can avoid. If you've ever opened a map, you have undoubtedly struggled to refold it. It won't fold at the creases, you'll forget which pages go on top of what, and you will inevitably find yourself stumped by what appears to be the simplest of tasks.

You may think that you've won the battle when you get to crinkle the map up and stuff it back into your glove compartment, but let's face it, the map has won, and always will win, the war.

It's just slightly annoying.

#912 Obnoxiously loud shoes

Loud click clackers find the best times to disruptively click clack their way through your life. Just wait until you finally lay your head down to rest or you turn on a movie for a nice relaxing night. That's when the girls on the floor above you will decide to put on their loudest heels and play soccer and/or take up amateur tap dancing.

Some boots weren't made for walking.

It's just slightly annoying.

#913 Writing cover letters

Some people argue that cover letters are a necessary evil.

That's a questionable description for a cover letter. It's definitely less necessary than evil. There's no way any hiring manager likes to read the hundreds of cover letters they receive. So, hiring managers, why require them?

I wonder if there's a correlation between the amount of employers that want cover letters with your resume and unemployment rates.

It's just slightly annoying.

#914 Unusable broken chips at the bottom of the bag

All guilty of hiding unusable broken chips.

You can't reach them. You can't dip them. You can't even pick them up with your hands. The best you can do is turn that bag upside down and enjoy the pieces of chips as they cut your throat on the way down. Mmmmmm.

They should make a bag that can't crinkle. Problem solved.


It's just slightly annoying.

#915 Impossible CAPTCHA codes

It's already a pain to type in all of the information requested of us when filling out online forms. The last thing we need to deal with is this:

CAPTCHA creators are definitely laughing at how much they can get away with. But hey, what choice do we have? We want our forms sent through the world wide web. So, CAPTCHA creators, do your best, we'll get it one of these times.

It's just slightly annoying.

#916 When you open your car door and snow falls onto your seat

In the end, this man's hard work will
probably be rewarded with a snowy seat.

This is a pretty immediate slight annoyance when it's snowy outside. You open you car door and bam. It's too late. It's over. There's a nice pile of snow right where you want to sit and there's nothing you can do about it. Brushing it away is the obvious go-to move, but it doesn't matter; your seat is already wet and cold. Listen up Mother Nature, if we wanted a wet, cold, uncomfortable seat, we would have sat down on a cold toilet seat or worn khaki shorts on the log flume.

It's just slightly annoying.

#917 Squeaky chairs

Similar to having a running nose, once you've got this, all eyes in the room are on you. You are the cause of slight annoyance to not only yourself, but also everyone else in the room. Every little movement of yours is broadcasted to the whole room in a ridiculously loud fashion. If you make even the slightest movements enough times, you might even get the reputation as "fidgety."

But hey, don't let yourself feel like the last kid to be picked in gym class. After days that you get stuck with the squeaky chair, come back here and watch this, from 0:25 on, and remember, it's not your fault. Damn chair making companies. They must be in cahoots with wobbly table makers.

It's just slightly annoying.

#918 Shopping carts with one bad wheel

Forget joyriding carts down the empty aisles of the grocery store and across vast parking lots. Instead, enjoy exerting double the effort to push your screeching cart with great dissatisfaction around corners and customers.

It's just slightly annoying.

#919 When your TV and cable box aren't in sync

Hit the power button, TV turns on and your cable box stays off. Blank screen.
Hit the power button again, TV turns off and your cable box turns on. Blank screen.
Hit the power button again, TV turns on and your cable box turns off. Blank screen.

I'd like to say it ends here because we immediately realize what's going on and we fix the problem. Let's not lie to ourselves though.

It's just slightly annoying.

#920 Texting when a call is clearly necessary

The next step is for texting to replace
face-to-face communication as well.

Our lives are centered around efficiency. We like things done the way we want and we like them done quickly and flawlessly.

High efficiency means, among other things, good use of time. It means making a call and talking things over instead of waiting impatiently for a text to come through. It means using your voice instead of using your phone keyboard. There's usually no logical reason for a conversation to be 100+ texts when a five minute phone call would have accomplished the same thing. It's odd that it's considered stranger to call than it is to text. Maybe when I want to tell somebody something that it's in the same room as me, I'll write it down and slowly walk it over to them instead of just telling them.

Technology is quite the double edged sword when it comes to efficiency.

It's just slightly annoying.

#921 Menus that don't list prices

Yellow menu, I support your truthfulness.

How does anyone, anywhere, think it's okay to not tell us, the ones spending the money, how much our food and/or drinks cost? This might actually be amazing if upon inquiry, we found out the prices were surprisingly cheap. But let's be realistic here.

It's just slightly annoying.

#922 Sleeping with contacts in

Sorry to all of you with the blessing of perfect vision, but you may not be able to relate to this one.

Besides the usual daily nuisance that contacts are during the day, they are also slightly annoying for other reasons. Contact wearers of the world, you know what I'm talking about. It's not fun sleeping with contacts in and waking up with painfully dried out eyes, contacts glued to your eyeballs and a feeling of general discomfort. Whatever little fairy that puts those crummy "sleepies" in our eyes at night should also give our eyes a nice little lubricating spritz of refreshment.

It's just slightly annoying.

#923 Laundry day

You've been wearing a pair of shorts as underwear for three days now, and the stench of the socks you've been wearing for a few days straight is unbearable. It's that day.

Laundry day is bittersweet; it's a necessary evil that leans heavily towards the evil side if washing and drying clothes will cost you. It's great having clean clothes, fresh out of the dryer. It's not so great having to block a few hours of your day to do the laundry. Okay, okay, you might just pop your clothes in the washing machine and then in the dryer, which only takes a few minutes. Those few minutes, however, are enough to disrupt your day and any activites you had planned. Laundry days are disrupted days.

It's just slightly annoying.

#924 When people only eat the liquid part of the salsa

This goes out to all of the people who do the salsa dip instead of the salsa scoop. You navigate your way around the salsa, making sure not to get any of the actual salsa ingredients on your chip, but instead just the pool of "salsa juice" that surrounds the good stuff. If you are this person, you tread dangerous waters. All of your navigating could result in a broken chip in the salsa, and we all know that's bad news.

It's not a tomato soup. It's salsa. It's time to man up and go for the scoop. You'll be happy you did; I assure you it's delicious.

It's just slightly annoying.