#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.