#964 Pouring cereal into a bowl and realizing there's no milk

Worst start to a day ever.

There's nothing like a nice bowl of cereal to fulfill your hunger. There's also nothing like the let down you feel when you come to the realization that there's no milk in the fridge. If you don't want to man up and go for the ol' OJ and cereal maneuver or eat dry carbohydratey cereal, there's always the simple solution of putting the bowl of cereal back into the box. Unfortunately, the simplest solution is also the messiest solution.

Enjoying picking your Cheerios up from all over the floor, especially after you step on a few by accident.

It's just slightly annoying.

#965 Bra hooks

How many hands does it take to master the bra hook?

Sorry women of the world, you might sympathize a little less here. I don't think anyone in the world would hate the idea of women not wearing any bra at all wearing the simplest of straps. For some men, figuring out a bra hook is as impossible as figuring out where in the world Carmen San Diego is. For others, it just takes a while, more like finding Waldo. And of course, there are plenty of men who have it all figured out and there's no fumbling, stumbling and/or ripping and pulling. All in all, when it comes down to it, men have your evil devices figured out ladies.

So the bra hook has been conquered. But hear this, men (and women)! Imagine hearing the satisfying sound of velcro coming apart during your bra crusade. Let's magnetize some straps up in here. Imagine having a clap-on (or off, get it?) bra. This is the future, let's make things voice activated! Okay, okay, okay, things aren't going to go in that direction but still...

It's just slightly annoying.

#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.

#967 Loud construction workers in the morning

Everyone has responsibilities. If you've got a job, you are responsible for your occupational duties. So, who assigns the duties to the construction workers that go right outside your window, turn the jackhammer on at six thirty in the morning and maintain communication with their coworkers by yelling over the already unbelievably loud, incessant cacophony?

Not pictured: you, trying to sleep in your bed, located 5 yards away.

Why can't construction workers go by the normal nine to five schedule?

It's just slightly annoying.

#968 Losing an hour of sleep during Daylight Saving Time

It's so awesome when you get to sleep a full hour more because time is turned back an hour overnight. It's so not awesome when time jumps forward and you lose a full hour of quality sleep. Is gaining that hour of sleep in the Fall worth losing that hour in the Spring? You may think differently, but I say nay. Let's take a minute to think about how stupid the invention of Daylight Saving Time is.

(This is space that should be used for thinking.)

If we never had invented this, it would just be accepted that it gets darker at a different time. Instead, time switches on us overnight and we wake up slightly annoyed on the (randomly) selected day in Spring. How can things be any more annoying? Oh wait, here's an idea. Let's make sure it's not standardized across the globe and even within countries. Check out this map, courtesy of wikipedia (which, by the way, has an unbelievably extensive page here on Daylight Saving Time, or as you kids call it, "DST").

     DST observed      DST no longer observed      DST never observed 

You stay strong orange and red.

It's just slightly annoying.