Gimmie your "best" first world problems (Page 6)

Hypothetically...

If I don't have the right kind of wine to serve with cat, and I have to send someone to the store before we can eat, is that a first world problem or third world problem?

Originally posted by KSH

Originally posted by popsracer I was thinking of this thread and got a bit of a chuckle at my wife yesterday.  The next door neighbor's yardcare service blew leaves into the road instead of picking them up and they were starting to find their way into our yard.  My wife went nuts.  She went right over and got the number for the business and demanded they come over immediately and clean it up.  It was funny how worked up she was over this horrendous problem. 

I have never understood the leaf blowers. It just moves the problem to another area.

I play a game on my runs and bikes, and that is to guess how long it will be into the workout before I encounter my first "leaf" blower.   It's usually sometime between about 30 seconds and 5 minutes.  Those things make huge clouds of dust, not to mention noise, and yeah, all they typically do is blow the crap into the street.  I don't understand the need to have a clean gutter in front of your home.  Sometimes the people rake it up the mess from the street, sometimes not.  I did manage to get the crew at the local park where I run to re-work their schedule so they weren't there 6 days a week with their leaf blowers at the same morning hour as dozens of people walking and running around the park.

I'm told it pairs well with anything, because by tomorrow you won't remember what you ate, and you certainly won't care to remember what you drank.

There is a cricket in/near my office.  I have to have my headphones in to listen to PandoraOne, because it is annoying me!

I went to visit a friend and see her new house this weekend.  It's ginormous and gorgeous.  She complained about how hard it was to decorate and furnish the 6000 plus sq. ft.  And the cleaning....well, obviously it would suck to have to maintain that much space.

Luckily when she "complains" she is fully aware of how first world her problems are and is extremely thankful for what she has....as well as very charitable 

FWIW, there is an electronic cricket noise maker that can be put into a computer and set to go off at regular intervals.  I'm sure yours is a real cricket, and no one would want to torture you like that, but, uh, just in case...:)

I had no idea that existed....

Now I'm suspicious of my coworkers .  

There was a kid at work who told me:  "You're like a 20 year old stuck in a 40 year old body." 

The day I left for China, I left one of these in his office.

Repeatedly.

Today is my "car restriction day." So, I had to take the bus instead of having my driver pick me up and take me to work.

On top of that, I forgot my bus card, so I had to pay 16 cents instead of 7 cents to ride the bus.

My Coach purse kept sliding off my shoulder until I realized that it was because the material from my IMAZ finisher jacket was too slippery and I had to then juggle holding my umbrella in one hand, Starbucks coffee in the other while I took off my jacket so my Coach purse wouldn't slip any more.