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Please post your most trivial first world problem here

We never used to power in my neighborhood up until about four years ago. When it did go off it'd be off for a couple of hours. Then it started going off more frequently for most of a day usually. That's when I bought a generator. The last couple of years I got quite proficient in generator operation.

Two months before I moved into my current house, this entire neighborhood lost power for 4 days after a hurricane.

I decided to buy a portable generator that plugs into the house and wired my main electrical panel for a backfed generator inlet. It's been several years now, this neighborhood has never lost power and I've never used my generator except for periodic testing.

It's sad really, I could have used that money to buy another bass. A really nice bass.
 
Two months before I moved into my current house, this entire neighborhood lost power for 4 days after a hurricane.

I decided to buy a portable generator that plugs into the house and wired my main electrical panel for a backfed generator inlet. It's been several years now, this neighborhood has never lost power and I've never used my generator except for periodic testing.

It's sad really, I could have used that money to buy another bass. A really nice bass.
My neighbor bought a big, expensive snow plow after the blizzard a few years ago. I hear him swearing at it every once in while for being a waste of money. I'm glad he bought it because we haven't had much snow since.
 
Two months before I moved into my current house, this entire neighborhood lost power for 4 days after a hurricane.

I decided to buy a portable generator that plugs into the house and wired my main electrical panel for a backfed generator inlet. It's been several years now, this neighborhood has never lost power and I've never used my generator except for periodic testing.

It's sad really, I could have used that money to buy another bass. A really nice bass.

Funny, I remember that recent winter. I bought a new $900 snow blower and didn't use it the entire season.:(
That's two nice basses.
 
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One of the guys on the Jeep Wrangler Forum is badly torqued and plans to sell off his vehicle because the sat radio signal is intermittant when he's in the mountains. "I thought the Jeep was a great vehicle, but this is just unacceptable. No more Jeeps for me!"
WHat's he trading it in for? A surface-air missile so that he can take out the satellite the signal comes from?
 
One of the guys on the Jeep Wrangler Forum is badly torqued and plans to sell off his vehicle because the sat radio signal is intermittant when he's in the mountains. "I thought the Jeep was a great vehicle, but this is just unacceptable. No more Jeeps for me!"
The same guy is on the Ford forum, the GMC forum, the Range Rover forum, the Toyota forum and the Mercedes-Benz forum complaining about the same thing. Strangely enough, regardless of what vehicle he drives the radio signal goes out in the same spot. All SUVs are junk!!!!
 
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That’s my wife. Drives me nuts. The tube CLEARLY tells you IN PLAIN ENGLISH, “For best results, squeeze tube from bottom”. Hello?!?!? Can you NOT read?!?!? Why wouldn’t you want the best results!?!?!?
It’s ok. I always forget to fold the laundry after pulling it out of the dryer and leave it in a pile on the bed, and she hulk squeezes the toothpaste and NEVER replaces the empty toilet paper roll with a new one. It’s a fair trade off.
Some friend of yours will tell you one day that the problem is you, not her. It's a "lifestyle" we don't understand, something like Gibson.

I'm in Canada and pot is now legal.
I'm having a hard time deciding on which strains to grow for my next crop.
All of them.
 
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A friend of mine had a brilliant one, without realizing it. He said: "The terrace of my appartment is great in summer, except at 6PM. Then the sun is located in such an angle that its rays hit my glasses, and it gets really difficult to read a book."


I can so relate. My "office" cough cough...cube...has a window and in the fall when sunset happens a bit early, the latter part of the afternoon it is impossible to see my computer screen from the glare. I've reconciled it by just going to the gym at that time, but still.