#862 Push doors that look like pull doors

This is just blatantly trying to
confuse us.

Store owners must do this on purpose to watch people embarrass themselves. Why would you need a place to grip if it was a push door? You don't. I've seen multiple people actually give up when they couldn't open a push door by pulling it. Humans may be smart, but sometimes we need a little help...how about a "push" sign?


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.

#891 Automatic doors that open too slowly

Sometimes it's faster to struggle with a regular door than to wait for a slow moving automatic door. Hey auto-doors, thanks, but no thanks.

It's just slightly annoying.

#898 When someone comes in your room and doesn't close the door on the way out

This always seems to happen right when you've found the perfect spot on the couch or right when the room hits the perfect temperature. Nothing kills the mood you want in a room more than an intruder that leaves the door open. If you find this happening a lot, it's time to make some new friends.

It's just slightly annoying.

#932 The crusty build-up of toothpaste on your toothpaste tube

This is one of those things where you say, "eh, I'll clean it tomorrow," and then tomorrow rolls around and you find yourself saying the same thing. The same routine will follow for days, and then weeks.

Eventually, you'll hit the breaking point. This breaking point usually occurs when you're squeezing the toothpaste and there's barely anything coming out because it can't get through the dried, crusty, old toothpaste that has accumulated around the opening of the tube. The only solution to this is to use your fingers to pick apart the crust and clean the opening. It feels disgusting and it's slightly annoying, sure, but can you really be angry when you could have prevented this by just rubbing off the specks of drying toothpaste on day one? Yet another slight annoyance is caused by procrastination.

It's just slightly annoying.

#956 Lines

We live in a world of instant gratification. We live in a world where you can usually get what you want fairly quickly. But somehow, we also live in a world of lines. What's up with that? 

When you get to the front of the line, you should be making an effort to move the line along. Have exact change ready, don't write checks, know what you want, don't rob the place, stay off the phone and move about your business quickly. If we avoid these time consuming ordeals, we can become a better world, like a world without lines or a world where the Dallas Cowboys have an embarrassing season, every season. Get your act together slowpokes, you're holding the world back. And no, I don't actually know what the word "slowpoke" means either.

It's just slightly annoying.

...except when this happens!

#966 Static electricity shocks

All seems well as you get out of bed in the morning to start your day. You shuffle across the room, grab your door handle and ZAP. Thanks to static electricity, you are now starting your day off with a bang.

Static electricity shocks don't hurt enough to be really annoying or to be something deemed as "painful," but it's certainly something we take into account when making decisions throughout everyday life. Static shocks are intimidating enough for us to slow down considerably before touching something, to live in a constant mild fear, and to occasionally avoid contact with people. In some cases, static shocks are even intimidating enough to take innocent childrens' lunch money.

There's always that one fearless jerk who knows that when you slide out of your car, gathering static, you will be trying to avoid contact with anything and anyone at all costs. To steal this jerk's thunder, I reccomend that you go the kamikaze way and shock yourself.

To explain what static electricity is and how it is discharged, we go to Bill Nye, everyone's favorite science hero, to watch him laugh in the face of static electricity.


Still not sinking in? Jam out to The Stinky Socks in their smash hit, Static Electricity.



Sure, these videos are fun. But a static electricity shock?

It's just slightly annoying.

#996 Tuesdays

People may say that Mondays are the worst, but that's just not true. Mondays are when you get to see people you haven't seen all weekend and share stories of all of the shenanigans you pulled over the weekend. Wednesdays aren't terrible either. Halfway through the week, and every day that passes is one day closer to the weekend.

Tuesdays, however, are just not a good day. Tuesday has absolutely no significance in the course of a week. In fact, in the history of man kind, the only good Tuesdays were probably all of those Tuesdays with Morrie. I motion to have Tuesdays removed from the calendar, who's with me?

It's just slightly annoying.