First World Problems

[not]

Yeah...I know it's probably just confirmation bias, but it really does seem that I try the wrong side every fucking time. I do the exact same thing when I try to connect my insulin infusion set to my body.

Maybe there is actually something about a USB design that does cause people to attempt to put it in the wrong way up more often than not? Some quality that is on the bottom of the USB that we usually associate with being on the top of things.

A paint pen is your friend. A dot of silver paint or any color that contrasts will make your life less 1st world. I also mark what any connection device is used for.

Unfortunately, not all USB ports are oriented in the same direction. Pretty sure my home computer's ports are opposite from my work computer's. Then there's the ones sticking out from the sides of my monitors.....

Edit: Colored paint pens are your friend. Dot match the male and female end!

 

[sojourner]

A paint pen is your friend. A dot of silver paint or any color that contrasts will make your life less 1st world. I also mark what any connection device is used for.

Unfortunately, not all USB ports are oriented in the same direction. Pretty sure my home computer's ports are opposite from my work computer's. Then there's the ones sticking out from the sides of my monitors.....

Edit: Colored paint pens are your friend. Dot match the male and female end!

I don't think my job/friends would like me putting paint marks on their hardware.

 

[not]

Unfortunately, not all USB ports are oriented in the same direction. Pretty sure my home computer's ports are opposite from my work computer's. Then there's the ones sticking out from the sides of my monitors.....

Edit: Colored paint pens are your friend. Dot match the male and female end!

I don't think my job/friends would like me putting paint marks on their hardware.

Hmm, I would tell them your paint pen inoculates the devices against viruses

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I live right above the kitchen of a 24 hour coffee shop/cafe, I almost never turn my heater on (a few days every winter). However the apartment permanately smells like coffee, and I have become a coffee dependent freak. Rarely touched the stuff before I moved here.

I spend more on coffee in a year, than I ever would have to heat my apartment. Hardly a economical trade off.

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You now know the power of the caffeinated side.

 

[scotpens]

I live in a second-floor apartment and I have a complaint about my downstairs neighbors. No, they're not noisy, they don't have parties all night, and they don't play loud music. In fact, they're very nice people. They do cook a lot, and the odors from their cooking waft up into my room. Usually it actually smells pretty good -- but the smell is invading my personal space, dammit! I use a lot of Neutra Air.

I have to flip my USB sticks three times before they'll go into the damn socket

Have you tried looking at the plug end of the stick to see which is the slot side and which is the thing-that-sticks-out side?

 

[Third Nacelle]

I'm all out of Keurig K-cups and had to make coffee in an old-fashioned drip machine. It took nearly SIX MINUTES! Plus I spilled grounds between the counter and the fridge and my cleaning lady doesn't come until Thursday. HELP!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

tumblr's queue is NOT working! It failed to post and I had to post something MANUALLY!!

 

[ITL]

Just had a mini power outage - one of those ones that lasts about five seconds. I had to turn my computer back on and reset the time on my digital clock. IT TOOK ME TWENTY SECONDS! Twenty precious seconds I'll never see again.

 

[auntiehill]

Our cable company doesn't provide BBCAmerica in HD. I feel wronged.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Have you tried looking at the plug end of the stick to see which is the slot side and which is the thing-that-sticks-out side?

I hope nobody ever turns that into a "That's what SHE said" joke.

 

[NCC1701]

Ever since upgrading from Windows XP to 7 the sound on my computer randomly refuses to work after a couple of hours of not having any music or games that use sound going, which means I have to restart my computer once or twice a day and that takes a minute each time I'll never get back!

 

[bluedana]

I can't find a decent recipe to use up my extra wheel of Brie. Dammit.

 

[Pondwater]

Clothes dryer went out and I have to dry clothes the old fashioned way hanging and using racks. I haven't seen the difference in my electric bill yet.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have to dry clothes the old fashioned way hanging and using racks.

Ouch!

(Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition... )

 

[_C_]

Today, my wireless keyboard ran low on battery power, so I had to plug it in to recharge it.

IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[T'Girl]

Maybe, get some artificial hair (like for a doll) and glue it around the socket.

This might make it easier to insert the UBS device.

(to avoid damage, please do not insert the UBS device over and over again)

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

If hair was all it took to be accurate well..

It's not. That's all I have to say about it.

 

[Vendikarr]

I can't find a decent recipe to use up my extra wheel of Brie. Dammit.

Give the brie to a homeless person. That way you feel you are doing a good deed, and he/she will think you're yuppie scum for giving them that crap.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

My convertible got towed while I was in Starbucks last Saturday. Retrieving it took all of twenty minutes, but the tow truck bent the custom license bracket.

 

[EmoBorg]

Deciding what to buy, Samsung Galaxy S4 or Samsung Note 2.