#969 Disrupted elevator trips

We all want that uninterrupted trip on the elevator. There's something inexplicably gratifying about making it to your destination in one shot, especially if you're covering a significant amount of floors. It just feels...right.

Celebrating an uninterrupted elevator trip

Even as a kid, this was slightly annoying. As a kid, we used to wait for the elevator to reach our floor and jump as the elevator stopped at our destination, thus giving us what felt like 3 extra feet of air. If you didn't do this, my apologies for you missing out on a fulfilling childhood. When the trip was suddenly and unexpectedly disrupted, our chance at the elevator moon jump was stolen away from us. It was this trauma (no, that's not too strong of a word) that may explain our current annoyance with elevator trip interference.

Like many slightly annoying situations, a good stare at the fun-ruiner may make you feel a better.  Have at it.

It's just slightly annoying.

#970 When people use the wrong homophone

To, too, two.

Effect, affect.

Than, then.

Your, you're.
Their, they're, there.

Etc.

Let's be honest, we're all guilty of doing this at some point. I'm sure that somewhere on this blog, there is a common homophone mistake somewhere. That doesn't make it any less annoying when someone else uses the incorrect homophone. 

Not to be a grammar Nazi, but SCHRITT ES DAMEN, ES RECHT ZU ERHALTEN!!

It's just slightly annoying.

#971 Spam mail

It's exciting when you have an email in your inbox. There's so many possibilities in an email: free stuff, a catch-up letter from an old friend, important alerts, updates, tracking information on your new mail-order bride, someone reaching out to meet you...an email could be anything! As we all know though, that's quite the double edged sword.

Instead of all these awesome things, we've become more accustomed to spam mail. The most anticlimactic mail out there. It comes in all forms and with all crazy types of content. No, I'm not going to provide you with my credit card information so you can "deposit 1,000,000 dollars into my account." No, I don't care to increase my penis size (maybe store that one to read later). Just because I once bought a desk online doesn't mean I'm interested in hearing about great deals on a 12-pack of desks. No, I still don't want to increase my penis size (I wonder if girls get these. I wonder if anyone else gets these actually. This could be a bad sign). There's no need to go on and on with this, we all get these emails. Before you get too excited about seeing some mail in your inbox, pull back a little and brace yourself for a slight dissapointment.

It's just slightly annoying.

#972 Food encroachment

A plate in danger of food encroachment.

Food encroachment isn't in everyday vocabulary and it's definitely not in the dictionary, but it should be. Here's a freebie for you Webster.

Food encroachment [food en-krohch-muh-nt]
noun
The act of one food (normally a condiment of sorts) infringing on another food.

This is pretty much the slightly annoying occurrence that happens on your plate when, for example, your gravy spills over from your turkey into your asparagus. Sometimes we do this to ourselves by accidentally placing a food too close to another food, and sometimes its an act of God at work. Regardless, you usually end up with an unwanted food combination that's not the end of the world, but still kind of sucks. When you put that ketchup on your plate for your fries, little did you know that it would end up on your turkey club sandwich. Your best solution is to grab a french fry (or whatever food that condiment was intended for) and use it as an edible mop to mop up the invading condiment before it's too late. Edible cleaning supplies...mmmmmm.

It's just slightly annoying.

#973 The top and bottom piece of bread

What are you even supposed to do with this piece of bread? It looks so innocent from the reverse side, and then you flip it over and wow, would you look at that? It's just one giant piece of crust.

We all know the piece lurking at the bottom.

Here's a genius idea: make a loaf of bread, throw out the top and bottom piece, replace them with edible pieces of bread, sell it. I'll be your first buyer. Step your game up Wonder Bread.

It's just slightly annoying.