First World Problems

One of the writing prompts for my 500 word a day challenge was to make a list.  How could you possibly reach 500 words with a list?  Challenge accepted, albeit not on the day the prompt was given.  

First world problems; not in any particular order.

1. The air from the hand dryer in a public bathroom is cold.
2. The new size of Magnum ice creams is smaller, so although they say you now get four in a box, they are four smaller ones.
3. You have to pay 30 pence to go to the toilet at Euston station.
4. The ending of Lost made you realise you’d wasted 121 hours over 6 long years waiting for the climax that was supposed to blow you away.
5. The supermarket has run out of your favourite coffee mousse again.
6. The latest video of a cute cat on the internet keeps buffering so you can’t watch it straight away.
7. Firefly didn’t get renewed
8. Jersey Shore did get renewed.
9. Your Amazon order didn’t arrive next day like it was supposed to.
10. They’d run out of the third meat option when you got to the front of the queue for your Sunday Carvery.
11. You bought tickets to see a stand-up comedian that you really like, and forgot to go to the gig when the date arrived.
12. It’s too warm in your modern open plan office and you’re falling asleep at work.
13. You didn’t get any decent photos of your dog dressed up in his Christmas Elf costume because he wouldn’t sit still long enough, and then sulked so you had to take it off him.
14. You found a small tear in the duvet on the enormous bed in your five star hotel room after they’d given you complimentary champagne when you checked in.
15. The spring loaded lid on the bin in the kitchen at work snaps back when you put your lunch rubbish in there and you get someone else’s gunk on your hand.
16. The Tivo box stopped recording 1 minute before the end of your favourite show and you missed the punch line.
17. You can’t find the garlic crusher when you’re making a chilli.
18. Spar shops in Vienna sell delicious deli food, but Spar shops in England don’t.
19. They’ve run out of peanut butter cheesecake in the American Diner you went into for dinner when that’s the one thing on the menu that you really wanted.
20. You have to load and unload the dishwasher every day
21. You couldn’t get your favourites seats in the IMAX cinema on the opening day of the next Marvel film you’ve been waiting for because someone had already booked them.
22. They changed the name of Jif to Cif in the year 2000 and you still can’t get used to it.
23. Cadburys have changed the recipe of their crème eggs and they don’t taste the same.  You didn’t like them anyway, but you’re still outraged.
24. Plastic carrier bags now cost 5p.
25. Having to find your old tin opener because you were reduced to buying store brand baked beans at the end of the month and they didn’t have a ring pull on the top.