1) Finding a golf buddy - I'm new at golf, so having an app that helped me meet other golfers to play with would be helpful.
2) Finding a dart buddy - Not so new to darts, but I find myself playing by myself a lot. Having a social network of dart players, just like golf, would help me meet up with others for games.
3) Coffee cools down too fast - Happens because I don't drink fast enough. Maybe a heated pad that keeps it warm?
4) My fan always makes noise when it's on - faulty design? Off and hot, or on and loud. Frustrating.
5) Protein powder clumps together - maybe I'm not shaking it hard enough, or maybe the powder is of poor quality.
6) Finding out how hot a hot sauce is in scoville units - Many popular brands list exactly how hot their sauce is via this scale, but many brands do not. Perhaps some don't report, or maybe the information just isn't obvious and needs some digging. It would be interesting if there is an app that could scan a bar code and tell you how hot exactly the sauce is.
7) Finding a gym buddy - Not so new to lifting, but I find myself lifting by myself a lot. Having a social network of lifters, just like with darts and golf, would help me meet up with others for workouts.
8) When using a lighter sometimes I burn my hand because the flame reaches the metal igniter - this happens because metal conducts heat really well.
9) Apps constantly crashing for no fault of my own - faulty code.
10) Difficult locating an item in a grocery store - sometimes they move items, or sometimes the item is specific and doesn't really match the descriptions on the aisle.
11) Getting into a line that isn't moving at the store - this is usually because the cashier is out of a particular coin or dollar bill. Having this displayed would be nice.
12) Getting into a movie only to realize it is so packed you cannot sit next to your friends - this happens because movies are popular and many people want to see them. Knowing how many seats are available ahead of time would be nice.
13) I wish the AI on smart phones were smart enough for me to indicate that I want to drive from point A to point B while avoiding tolls - maybe some smart phones can do this, but mine doesn't and it is fairly new.
14) It bugs me when I ask for a medium rare steak, and I get a medium - I imagine this is because the restaurants are afraid of their customers getting food poisoning.
15) It bugs me how easily sunscreen washes off - salt, sweat, and water washes it away.
16) It bugs me how long it takes clothes to dry in the dryer - different materials dry at different rates.
17) It bugs me when gyms aren't strict about members putting their weights away - this is just laziness.
18) It bugs me when people curl in the squat rack - gym workers not noticing, don't want to scold customers
19) It bugs me that a hot shower can turn cold based on what your roommate is doing in his/her bathroom - it's hard for me to say why this happens because I'm not a plumber/pipe person, but I would really love if this didn't happen anymore
20) It bugs me that there is only one lane on SW 20th Ave when it is so busy with traffic and buses - whoever designed the road did not anticipate the high volume of traffic.
I comprised this list in a few hours. It really wasn't difficult at all for me to think of things that annoy me. Lots of things annoy me, but putting them all in a list was a little weird but not terribly difficult.
Hello Kyle,
ReplyDeletethank you for your post.
There were definitley a few of your "bugs" that i share including not being able to find a golfing buddy, protein and whey powder clumping together, the ease of sunscreen rubbing off, and fans being noisy.
One aspect where I think your post was great was that there are a lot of entrepreneurial and business ideas which could be implemented to solve your "bugs," such as a golf-buddy app.
Hello Kyle,
ReplyDeletethank you for your post.
There were definitley a few of your "bugs" that i share including not being able to find a golfing buddy, protein and whey powder clumping together, the ease of sunscreen rubbing off, and fans being noisy.
One aspect where I think your post was great was that there are a lot of entrepreneurial and business ideas which could be implemented to solve your "bugs," such as a golf-buddy app.
I really liked your list of bugs. There were many of them that I definitely did not include on my list but they bug me as well. I definitely agree that it is annoying when there are not enough seats at the movie theater for you and your friends to sit next to each other. In my hometown, they have actually renovated the theaters to have huge recliner seats and instead of buying general tickets and then going in to grab a seat, you choose your seat when you're buying it. Hopefully they will start to do this everywhere. But I also agree with a lot of your bugs about the gym because there are definitely a lot of people that do these things and it just keeps happening.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it wasn't too difficult to make the list but it was kind of challenging. Even though these things annoy me, it's hard to put them all in a list together.
These list of bugs are so routine sometimes I don't even realize them as bugs until they are listed out like this. As for the bug of hard to find items in a grocery store, slide through to my Publix I work at we'll take you right to the item! As for the reflection I honestly found them hard to think of because I get in such a routine of just dealing with them it was hard to think what truly bugs me.
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