I have a number of things that bother me, or " bug me " let me tell you about them.
1.) The left turn lights in my town do not blink in yellow after turning red, while the straight lane is still green. This holds up traffic forever, especially if you want to make that left turn and no one is around.
Why does this bug exist? Probably to keep old people from dying.
2.) Traffic in little cities like mine is annoying and red lights waste so much gas, but you need to keep your car on to keep the good ac running.
Why does this bug exist? This exist because car manufacturers have not figured out how to keep a battery from dying without moving the car.
3.) People who walk slow in stores and cause me to walk slow.
Why does this bug exist? This bug exists because most stores were built in the 80s and 90s and at the time the average American was not obese.
4.) My girlfriends mom just talks for the longest time about the dumbest things, like getting her haircut in five weeks.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because I am not patient and cannot stand dumb conversation.
5.) People who text and drive bug me.
Why does this bug exist? Most states do not have good texting while driving laws, or phone companies cant shut off phones if you are traveling past "x" miles an hour. Mainly, though, it exists because people are inconsiderate jerks who put unimportant conversation before the lives of others.
6.) Microsoft charges me on a month to month basis for using their products.
Why does this bug exist? Mostly, because Bill Gates is a greedy guy who wants my 9.99 a month for years instead of charging me $100 one time.
7.) People who drink alcohol and drive.
Why does this bug exist? Mostly because individuals do not want to blow on a meter to start their car. Maybe the manufacturers should just require there cars to have these in them.
8.) People who work in the food industry sick.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because employees do not make much money and literally cannot afford to miss a day of work, so they come to work and get everyone they serve sick.
9.) Expensive protein powders and supplements.
Why does this bug exist. Protein is not expensive to make, but people do not buy enough and sellers need to make lots of money on as little product as possible to stay alive.
10.) People who bash Crossfit, or think the program is insufficient.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because dumb people go on Youtube who have no idea what they are doing and try to demo crossfit, or individuals open there own gym who literally have 8 minutes of experience. Then these people are who non-crossfiters see representing crossfit, when they are actually not what crossfit stands for at all.
11.) People like Hilary Clinton who think have 7 houses instead of 10 houses is being poor.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because reality television has brainwashed people into thinking having the latest and greatest is a must have. Pretty sure the average American owns 10 years of a 30 year mortgage on house number one and is probably up to their eyeballs in debt.
12.) Schools that charge too much for their tuition.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because school like to build huge buildings that contribute absolutely nothing to their academic profile, and they are forced to pass on there costs to the students. Ask yourself how much money it costs to send a college kitting team across the country to a meet. The answer is thousands of dollars and we re all paying for it.
13. ) Community colleges that do not post their graduate employment rating for vocational training.
Why does this bug exist? This exists because community college do not want to embarrass themselves by telling the community that they do not prepare there students well and no one gets hired after graduation, but hey everyone paid for it.
14. ) People who talk to large crowds who do not know a lot about anything, similar to Donald Trump.
Why does this bug exist? This bug exists because elementary school teachers did not teach there student how to answer a question. When kids get away with giving bad answers by making the class laugh it is a disservice to the rest of society because these kids grow up into people like Donald.
15.) School lunches that have little nutrition.
Why does this bug exist? Schools do not have enough money to grow any of their own food and are so dependent on big companies to sell them cheap food that kids will like. Think of your high school lunch, breakfast, or even the food choices U.F offers. Everything comes from some giant corporation and all of the nutrition that we need to live great lives is taken out and it makes me sick.
16.) The earphone speakers broke that I just bought today to watch the lecture video for week two in my entrepreneurship class.
Why does this bug exist? Mostly because these buds like everything else at target were made in china out of material that is of bad quality.
17. ) When people on the news think low gas prices are going to rip the world apart by making other countries poor.
Why does this bug exist? Other countries rely on high oil prices to pay for everything they purchase or supply to their citizens. These countries have not diversified their own portfolios and want to blame others for their issues. So the news stations feel sorry for them and want something to report about, but when oil is too expensive these reporters just complain. Some of the most annoying reporting I have ever listened to.
18.) Why the best economics professor from Santa Fe Mr. Hartman not work at U.F?
Why does this bug exist? Well personally I thought this guy was the best teacher I have ever had, he literally did everything he could to make economics the most interesting subject to students and he did it so well. He might not have the qualifications to work at U.F or maybe he has never applied to teach here. Seriously though, I hope he teacher economics here on day.I would rather learn from him than some stiff who has a P.H.D in chart reading.
19.) When my girlfriend wants me to write about her in this blog.
Why does this bug exist? Well for multiple reasons: first I chose to do this specific assignment at her house, I literally have five assignments to accomplish and I chose to do this one, and secondly because she likes to see what I am working on and realized that I have two more things to write about and I am running out of things to write about.
20.) When people make rude comments about my forearm muscles specifically the lack there of.
Why does this bug exist? Well for some unknown reason I cannot get my forearm muscles to grow. Like seriously here I am squatting 400 pounds and benching nearly 250 but my forearms look like they belong on a 14 year old boy. I might consider buying those gloves Sponge Bob Square Pants used to impress his friends by having blown up arms.
Reflections.
Well this was actually a challenging assignment because I started to run out of things to write about. I found it difficult, but luckily I had the news on in the background and some things just came to my attention while watching the news and I wrote about those. I also did not know how much to write, so some of my bugs are short while others area little lengthy. I also found myself going off on tangents at times, so my apologies to whomever has to read this and comment on it.
Steve Clegg
This list is great and I agree with a lot of your bugs. I also got a good laugh out of it. I really tried not to make my bugs personal so they are a bit vague and boring, but I thought yours was pretty interesting to read. I didn't have much time to throw mine together since I am abroad this semester and trying to adjust to the 6 hour time difference, so it was challenging for me as well. Watching the news is a great way to come up with bugs! My host family here in Spain watches news about Trump and Clinton all the time, it's interesting to see how much they are disliked worldwide. I didn't realize the middle finger was used in Spain until I saw my host mom watching Trump talk on TV, she flicks him off every time. We have a few bugs in common, such as, people who walk slow in front of you.
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Hi Steve! Your bug list was very interesting and funny to read. I also had a hard time coming up with 20 different reasons that bug me, even though I feel like I’m constantly complaining about something. I found a lot of mine were about the UF campus, like parking or long lines. Our lists are pretty different because I chose to write about more general bugs and some of yours were more specific to you. Here’s my list: http://nicmcq.blogspot.com/2016/01/bug-list.html
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