Why: The app is set up in way that makes it difficult to address a specific person and allows everyone to speak simultaneously.
2. My dorm at school is has stray cats living all around it.
Why: The dorm is built directly adjacent to the woods where all the cats live.
3. When I fill my car with gas, often times my hands smell like gasoline.
Why: Residue gasoline drips onto the pump so when you touch it it gets on your hands.
4. The WiFi in my bedroom is pretty weak and makes it hard to stream on my laptop.
Why: My WiFi router is on the opposite end of my house so it doesn't strongly reach that far.
5. Even when it's warm I get cold riding on scooters.
Why: I dress for warm weather, but then with wind and resistance on the scooter I am underdressed.
6. When you call customer service for most companies you get put on hold for a long time.
Why: Large companies face a lot of problems and don't hire a reflective amount of customer service workers.
7. I love white shoes, but every time I own a pair they get ruined quick.
Why: Dirt and debris sticks to the shoes and is easy to see on a white color.
8. Every time I dress up I find myself wearing the same couple of ties.
Why: I only own a few ties and I am not going to buy more because I don't wear them all the time.
9. I constantly have to buy new chargers because mine break or get lost.
Why: Chargers are made very small and fragile and they are used so often that they go through a lot of wear and tear, and it's easy to forget where you last had it.
10. Apps like Ubereats and Doordash sometimes arrive too late if you do not have much time.
Why: The estimated arrival time changes, so when you order it it may not get there when it originally says.
11. In the Graham Hall dryer I have to run my clothes twice before it is done.
Why: The dryer is not strong enough to dry all clothes in one cycle.
12. I struggle to wake up for alarms, especially if I didn't get much sleep.
Why: It's very easy to hit the snooze button or to turn of the alarm and go back to sleep.
13. My roommate and I were on very different sleep schedules and it was hard to do stuff well he was asleep.
Why: Since I stayed up later than him I couldn't make noise or have lights on while he was sleeping.
14. I constantly have dog fur everywhere in my house.
Why: I have a very big dog that sheds a lot so it is hard to always keep the house clean.
15. When I am home I can never see my friends from school and vice versa.
Why: I live in Michigan and go to school in Florida so I can't make the commute easily.
16. There are never enough machines available at the Southwest gym.
Why: Too many people go at the same time and the machines are not organized to make sure everyone can get one.
17. I can never find my keys when I need to leave.
Why: They are small and there is no service like find my iPhone to help me find them.
18. My sister and I share a car at home, and she uses gas, but I have to pay to fill it up.
Why: My sister never fills the tank so when I get in it's always on empty and I have to fill it.
19. My cat brings small animals, such as chipmunks, into our home.
Why: She is a hunter, but instead of hunting animals inside she brings outside animals in.
20. My mom is a professional baker, but we do not get to eat the cookies.
Why: She makes cookies for clients, so if we ate them she would be short on orders.
I found it difficult to come up with twenty things that bug me. I feel like I get annoyed a lot but when I had to specify it got hard. Also, even after I came up with the things that bother me, it was hard to explain why they happened. I began to observe things in my life more and realized specific things that bother me.
Hello Mr. Wainer,
ReplyDeleteAs I was reading your bug list, I was feeling chills down my back for realizing the relevance of so many issues that bugs not only me, but a lot of college students. Number one is especially apparent in the current situation of a pandemic, but the others are little everyday things that we often overlook. Thank you for sharing this!
Hey Michael,
ReplyDeleteYour bugs are definitely applicable to mine and other students' when it comes to campus life and the small but annoying challenges that come with it. Being cold on scooters, crowded gyms and old dorms surely would come up on most UF students' lists. With that being said, many of these issues wouldn't be difficult to solve, and with some innovation they can transform the campus experience for future classes