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pete6032

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I'm at a point where I hate driving during certain times of the day and avoid certain roads/intersections. I can't stand dealing with the traffic. I don't know how people in big cities do it because the traffic is 100x worse than here.

Well one thing to consider is that people living in a big city don't have to drive as far in order to get to their destination. Within 1.5 miles (2.5 KM) of my house there are 8 grocery stores - 6 supermarkets, 1 Whole Foods, and 1 Trader Joe's. I usually walk to the grocery store closest to me, but if I drive to the one farthest away, it's about 10-15 minutes to go 1.5 miles.

If I lived in the suburbs, it would probably be a 15 minute drive from home to the grocery store, but the total distance would be 4-5 miles. Same amount of time, but shorter distance in the city.

In general I have virtually everything I need within 3 miles of my house. Multiple restaurants, Grocery store is 5 blocks away, coffee shop is 3 blocks, post office is about 1/2 mile, bank is in the grocery store, and public library is less than 1 mile away. Bigger stores like Home Depot/Target/Walmart/etc. are a bit longer drive, maybe 3.5-4 miles, but I can get most of these things online. Several chain clothing stores within a few blocks, but the biggest retail clothing district is 15-20 mins by subway. The only time I drive somewhere is if I would have to make multiple transit transfers or if it's crazy cold/raining.
 
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Charmonium

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If I lived in the suburbs, it would probably be a 15 minute drive from home to the grocery store, but the total distance would be 4-5 miles. Same amount of time, but shorter distance in the city.
That's about right. Closest supermarket is at least 4-5 miles. If I want to buy anything from fast food to coffee, it's about the same distance, maybe a little closer.
 

Engineer

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Oct 9, 1999
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Stupid low tire pressure indicators on my daughter's Jeeps don't show exactly which tire(s) is (are) low. Had to keep putting pressure in them all until the light went off!
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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The cast iron pan I wanted to try was underneath another pan... so I had to get my $120 MSRP (I paid $60) stainless frying pan.

Also, to estimate my taxes and do some capital gain/loss trading, I had to start a new profile in the tax software and fill in some fake names so I wouldn't screw up my old saves.
 

CZroe

Lifer
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Stupid low tire pressure indicators on my daughter's Jeeps don't show exactly which tire(s) is (are) low. Had to keep putting pressure in them all until the light went off!

Uhh, that's not what you are supposed to do. Most pumps have a tire pressure gauge and you are supposed to check your tire pressure regularly anyway (don't wait for the light). Just getting the light to turn off is not the point of adding air. You're supposed to be inflating to the *correct* pressure. Check the label in your glove box or door frame and buy a $2 gauge at Wal-Mart to use at the odd service station that doesn't have one built into the pump.
 

Imp

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Uhh, that's not what you are supposed to do. Most pumps have a tire pressure gauge and you are supposed to check your tire pressure regularly anyway (don't wait for the light). Just getting the light to turn off is not the point of adding air. You're supposed to be inflating to the *correct* pressure. Check the label in your glove box or door frame and buy a $2 gauge at Wal-Mart to use at the odd service station that doesn't have one built into the pump.

I used my bike bump to top off my tires before... I was shocked that it worked and the valve fit. It was a mini-pump so a larger one would have been even easier.
 

HeXen

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Dec 13, 2009
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I had to wrap presents. I hate wrapping presents. I also ended up getting some presents for some pseudo family members that never get me anything for xmas. Spirit of giving works both ways imo, job or not. Any dead beat moron off the streets can come up with a dollar tree item to give to someone but apparently not the Y generation these days. Something about entitled special kitties or some such nonsense because even when they are losers, they are still winners!! ....I just wish I knew how that actually functions.
 

Engineer

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Uhh, that's not what you are supposed to do. Most pumps have a tire pressure gauge and you are supposed to check your tire pressure regularly anyway (don't wait for the light). Just getting the light to turn off is not the point of adding air. You're supposed to be inflating to the *correct* pressure. Check the label in your glove box or door frame and buy a $2 gauge at Wal-Mart to use at the odd service station that doesn't have one built into the pump.

I do have gauges and check often. However, when the temperature drops (like it did in the last few days), the pressure in the Jeep tires drops (does it every every year when it's cold). I don't check them weekly (and I bet most people here don't either). I can drive them and they will usually warm up enough to not come on if I turn the car off and turn it back on. Oh, and that's exactly what the low tire warning system if for....to let you know if your tires are below rated pressure (whether you are checking and filling them or not), just like any other warning system on your car.

Wife's car states the pressure in each tire.

$2 gauges at Walmart are shit by the way. I do need another gauge (I'll ask for one for Christmas)...my air compressor has one but it shows the tank, not what's in the tire.

Oh, and it's my first world problem so nah...nah...booo....booo!!!
 
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IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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I was once again smacked in the face with the fact that we're a bunch of first world pussies. Even that power lifter dude who manages to mention power lifting in every post is a pussy. I was out hiking today and spied what looked to be possibly a cave entrance so up I climbed. When I arrived at the spot it turned out to be an old mine prospect, an adit about fifteen feet in and six feet by three feet. Impressive work but that isn't what made me consider us pussies. The adit was at the base of a cliff and about a thousand vertical feet up a sixty degree slope from the nearest road. On the face of the cliff the miners of yesteryear had built a ladder. The ladder was made of five 20 ft sections of 8x3 lumber, notched every couple feet to provide hand/foot holds. The sections were stringed up the face of the cliff and held in place by steel rods driven into the cliff. The ladder led to a narrow ledge that the miners used as a starting point for their next adit. So these guys had to drag five, twenty long hunks of lumber up the slope and then figure out how to stick them to the cliff and then dig a hole in the rock up there. Giants among manly man, they were.

On the other hand, they were dumb as a bag of hammers when it came to figuring out where to dig for ore. There was zero sign of ore in the spoil pile and zero geological reason to dig where they were digging in hope of striking it rich. But, we're still a bunch of pussies.
 

Imp

Lifer
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I was once again smacked in the face with the fact that we're a bunch of first world pussies. Even that power lifter dude who manages to mention power lifting in every post is a pussy.

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Sounds like you would enjoy the handiwork of miners in South America and Africa.
 

HeXen

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Dec 13, 2009
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I was once again smacked in the face with the fact that we're a bunch of first world pussies. Even that power lifter dude who manages to mention power lifting in every post is a pussy. I was out hiking today and spied what looked to be possibly a cave entrance so up I climbed. When I arrived at the spot it turned out to be an old mine prospect, an adit about fifteen feet in and six feet by three feet. Impressive work but that isn't what made me consider us pussies. The adit was at the base of a cliff and about a thousand vertical feet up a sixty degree slope from the nearest road. On the face of the cliff the miners of yesteryear had built a ladder. The ladder was made of five 20 ft sections of 8x3 lumber, notched every couple feet to provide hand/foot holds. The sections were stringed up the face of the cliff and held in place by steel rods driven into the cliff. The ladder led to a narrow ledge that the miners used as a starting point for their next adit. So these guys had to drag five, twenty long hunks of lumber up the slope and then figure out how to stick them to the cliff and then dig a hole in the rock up there. Giants among manly man, they were.

On the other hand, they were dumb as a bag of hammers when it came to figuring out where to dig for ore. There was zero sign of ore in the spoil pile and zero geological reason to dig where they were digging in hope of striking it rich. But, we're still a bunch of pussies.

Not sure if one's adaptability for their environment dictates who's a pussy or not. If you were dropped off in a very poor area, you would adapt and survive, your brain will change how you think, it's science and well proven from anyone who found themselves in a life or death environment. Surviving doesn't make you manly, it only makes you human.
Likewise, take anyone from a very poor or dangerous country, put them in the USA and they'll adapt all the same, they'll probably even ride a bus their first day here...what a pussy they'll become..
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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Those 48 rolls of toilet paper plus the 12 I bought a week later have nowhere to go. We can't wipe our asses quickly enough to use them up...
 
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Sleeping on my dad's couch because the air mattress in the hide-a-bed sprung a leak and it's a weird custom part that we have to drive to the furniture store in the next town over to order a replacement for.
 

Imp

Lifer
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Some complete fuck-wit decided it'd be a good idea to touch me in the middle of a one sided argument -- person did stupid thing, I did all the talking. Warned him not to do it again, he did it two more times, I almost decked his stupid ass. Idiot hasn't learned that touching something pissed at you makes things worse after a lifetime. Felony assault charge held me back, damn first world legal system.
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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One of the sites I work at got a quarter machine for hot chocolate.

No marshmallows
 

Imp

Lifer
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Just performed my last stock transaction of the year -- triggered cap gains -- and now have to wait 3 days until the settlement day to finish my taxes because I need the forex rate on that day.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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Some complete fuck-wit decided it'd be a good idea to touch me in the middle of a one sided argument -- person did stupid thing, I did all the talking. Warned him not to do it again, he did it two more times, I almost decked his stupid ass. Idiot hasn't learned that touching something pissed at you makes things worse after a lifetime. Felony assault charge held me back, damn first world legal system.

Were you frustrated from losing the argument?
 

HeXen

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Dec 13, 2009
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Some complete fuck-wit decided it'd be a good idea to touch me in the middle of a one sided argument -- person did stupid thing, I did all the talking. Warned him not to do it again, he did it two more times, I almost decked his stupid ass. Idiot hasn't learned that touching something pissed at you makes things worse after a lifetime. Felony assault charge held me back, damn first world legal system.

So in other words, the guy didn't learn anything and he can touch you however he wants and get away with due to your fears of assault charges. You sure told him.
 

Charmonium

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Supermarket only had one box of the buffalo veggie wings so now I have to eat the Parmesan veggie wings. Thank god I got the honey mustard yogurt dressing.
 
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