#833 The phantom phone vibrate

Anything? Nope.

The phantom phone vibrate is the common occurrence when you feel your phone vibrate but discover that it did not vibrate at all. You have no alerts, texts, emails, nothing.

This wouldn't be too annoying if it didn't happen a few more times sometime soon after the first time. This occurrence never happens just once. You will feel the disappointment and the slight annoyance many a time before your phone is done playing tricks on you.

Bzzzzzzz.

It's just slightly annoying.

#840 When you're with someone who's having a text conversation with someone else and they leave their text ringtone on

Nobody wants to hear your phone make any noises over and over again, let alone the same noise over and over again. It's a little rude, don't you think? You see all of those eyes on you? They don't belong to happy people. Put it on vibrate and stop forcing the world to acknowledge every time you get a text.

It's just slightly annoying.

#843 Being put on a cell phone's speakerphone

Maybe if these things came with
cell phones, we wouldn't encounter
this slight annoyance.

It's often unnecessary and always impossible to make out what's being said.

It's just slightly annoying.

#844 Texting with greasy fingers

Your phone cringes when the waiter
brings your greaseburger out.

Greasy food and texting don't really mix. Go nosh on some fries while you text a buddy. Even if you're texting correctly with no big problems, you still can't feel good about the grease that's very clearly being smeared all over your screen or keyboard.

It's just slightly annoying.

#846 Adjusting to a new phone

Phones are getting crazier and crazier. Coincidentally, they're also getting awesomer and awesomer.

The learning gap between your old phone and new phone can be really difficult at times. For a while, you'll feel like your parents using a phone, lost and confused over the simple things. Grit your teeth and bite your tongue as "experienced" users of your new phone butt in and say "here, let me show you what to do." We all know that's a blow to the prideful nature in all of us.

Embrace the futuristic phones but be prepared to feel like an idiot.

It's just slightly annoying.

#849 Typing a capital i followed by a lower case L

It doesn't come up that often, but when it does, it's a bit hard to distinguish between letters. It comes up most in texts when people forget to use apostrophes or phones don't automatically insert them.

"Ill be right back." See the problem?

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.

#896 Character limits

160 characters really isn't that much for
a text message.

Can there really be any significant difference in technology to allow a large character limit on a phone or computer? Why put a character limit on anything? Sometimes there's a lot to say, and by "a lot," I mean more than the paragraph that character limits allow. I'd rather send one message, instead of three, thank you very much.


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.

#962 Butt dials

A phone, clearly conniving.

Ah, the old butt dial. We get it and we give it, and either way, it's just slightly annoying. It is especially slightly annoying if one butt ends up leaving an unimportant voicemail, the double whammy that could push a slight annoyance to be a regular annoyance. Let's clear things up on the definition of butt-dialing. To do so, let's turn to the most reliable, accurate dictionary there is: the urban dictionary. Below is an abbreviated excerpt:

BUTT DIALING
When you accidentally sit on your cell phone and dial someone up and don't realize it. 

Synonyms: roll over calling, booty calling, baby-got-back calling

Urban dictionary also informs us that there is the crotch dial, the breast dial, and of course, the diaper dial. You can imagine what these definitions entail.

If only our butts can talk, then it wouldn't be slightly annoying when someone's phone happens to dial your number while in someones pocket. Butts probably hate it when you answer a butt dial because your two butts may just have wanted to have a great conversation between themselves. Quit being a conversation ruiner.

It's just slightly annoying.

#963 Unimportant voicemails

This is perhaps one of the biggest differences between older generations and younger generations. Anybody who is anybody of the younger generation knows that if you don't have something important to say when you call, there's no need to leave a voicemail. Obviously, the intended recipient of your phone call will see that they have a missed call. They will see that it's from you, what time you called and how many times you called. The missed call obviously implies that someone wanted to reach you, and you just call them back. Easy. Standard procedure.

Typical reaction after
getting a voicemail.

It's slightly annoying when someone deviates from the standard procedure.  9 out of 10 times, that deviation is a call from an older person, most likely a parent. Well, it must be urgent if they're leaving you a voicemail. Slightly annoyed, you'll dial up your voicemail, listen to the "please enter your password, then press pound" message that you've heard nine million times, punch in your password and listen to the important voicemail.

"Hey there, it's dad. It's 9:30 on Monday, just calling to see what's up. Call me back."

Great, how very important.


What's also slightly annoying is that even if you delay the inevitable of listening to that voicemail, you'll have to live with the little "new voicemail" icon on your cell phone's homescreen until you deal with it.

It's just slightly annoying.