little annoyances

1. the extra heavy-duty safety glass on the subway windows say “this side out” yet you’re reading it from inside the train.

2. when the train stops at your station but doesn’t open the doors so nobody can get on or off, and you have to go to the next stop & wait for a train to take you back, thus wasting ½ hour of your time (while carrying groceries).

3. when you go to the doctor for a refill on your normal prescriptions, and they send you to a cardiologist, thus wasting both yours and the doctor’s time.

4. Michael stipe needs a lyrics sheet to sing “it’s the end of the world (and I feel fine)”.

5. you have specific places for things at work, that are clearly labeled, but everyone puts everything everywhere.

6. When you tell UPS to deliver something on Thursday, when you’ll be home, and they try to deliver it TWICE during the hour you had to leave. Then they say you have to go to queens & pick it up. You argue with them to deliver it to your work, but they won’t change the name on it, so you can’t be sure if you’ll even get it because it doesn’t say the company name, let alone your own, and the guys in receiving don’t know your boyfriend’s name or to look for it.

7. that your NY state taxes get rejected 3 times because they can’t comprehend that you spent the first 8 months of the year in California.

Of course, these are just generalities, but you get the idea.