My Bug List

1a. The drivers of the Gainesville RTS buses often drive without regard for the people forced to stand due to overcrowding.

1b. This bug exists because buses are most likely difficult to drive and even more difficult to quickly brake.

2a. The handle on my microwave broke off due to its inability to open without the use of excessive force.

2b. This bug exists because the microwave is most likely older and the door may not open as easily as it once did.

3a. My Chromebook laptop frequently shuts down while I am in the middle of doing work.

3b. This bug exists because the Chromebook is reaching the end of its life and cannot keep up with my use of it.

4a. My phone's touchscreen is sometimes unresponsive or slow to respond to input.

4b. This bug exists because the phone is a lower-end model and cannot keep up with my use of it.

5a. The Office of Student Financial Affairs is adverse to giving me something even resembling a straight answer.

5b. This bug exists because often the Office of Student Financial Affairs probably does not have a straight answer to give me.

6a. Spotify is inconsistent in the dates on which it pulls payments for Spotify Premium out of my bank account.

6b. This bug exists because Spotify most likely staggers and has automated their payment system, resulting in payments that are charged based off of something outside of human control.

7a. The bed frame that came with my furnished apartment is a bit too large for the mattress that it came with, resulting in plenty of bruises.

7b. This bug exists because the mattresses in the furnished apartments are probably newer to keep up with cleanliness standards.

8a. The app I use to keep track of my work schedule does not give me notifications on upcoming shifts, which resulted in me being late to work a month ago.

8b. This bug exists because the app is a fairly niche service and there is probably not much demand for notifications in the first place.

9a. Winn-Dixie, the closest grocery store to my apartment, went out of business, forcing me to take the bus to go get groceries.

9b. This bug exists because the Winn-Dixie by my apartment was the least profitable one in Gainesville due to its location and so was closed.

10a. The pool at my apartment complex is only like four feet deep throughout the whole pool.

10b. This bug exists because there are probably safety concerns regarding the pool since there is not a lifeguard on duty.

11a. A card I mailed for a family member's birthday reached her several days late, despite me giving it to the office to send out well before her birthday.

11b. This bug probably exists because there may have been larger than usual quantities of mail as people tried to get things shipped out before Labor Day weekend.

12a. Hulu still plays large numbers of ads, despite the fact that I pay for it monthly.

12b. This bug exists because Hulu must keep up with the rising costs of providing current and updated television and movie content.

13a. UF sends out no reminders for students to submit their health insurance waivers, resulting in a charge for health insurance that I neither want nor need.

13b. This bug exists because UF wants to make it easier and less confusing to provide insurance to students who do need it from them, or so they can make more money off of forgetful students.

14a. Upon washing my pillows in the washer I found that they had gone from pillow-shaped to amorphous blob-shaped.

14b. This bug exists because the pillows I got were the cheap five dollar pillows from Walmart.

15a. Most restaurants on campus have incredibly inconsistent hours during the summer semesters, particularly those in the Reitz Union.

15b. This bug exists because most restaurants on campus are staffed by students and the availability of said staff is most likely inconsistent during the summer semesters.

16a. News websites that I frequently read place their content behind a paywall after I have read a certain number of articles.

16b. This bug exists because printed news services are having an increasingly difficult time keeping up with competitors on television and on the internet, necessitating a subscription service similar to those through which they provide newspapers.

17a. It took an extra year for Innovation Academy students to receive full Bright Futures like the rest of UF, derailing my plans for last fall.

17b. This bug exists because the Innovation Academy was created through its own piece of legislation and as such was not included in the initial test run for full Bright Futures.

18a. The 34 bus does not stop at the same stops as the 20 when they go down 34th Avenue, and the driver of the 34 was condescending when he informed me of that fact.

18b. This bug exists because the 34 has additional stops further up the road from where the 20 turns onto 34th Avenue, defeating the purpose of a stop so close to the next one.

19a. Table space at Gamesville Tabletop changed from a free system to a paid membership system.

19b. This bug exists because the store has found a commodity that people will pay money for, something that will help them compete with online shopping like Amazon and stay in business.

20a. The board game Kingdom Death: Monster is next to impossible to obtain outside of Kickstarters or massively inflated eBay auctions.

20b. This bug exists because Kingdom Death: Monster is a very niche game that is expensive and time-consuming to produce due to the high quality of its components.

Going into this assignment, I did not think I would find it particularly difficult to come up with 20 things that annoy me because, unfortunately, there are many, many things that annoy me. However, as I started writing I hit a couple obstacles. The first of these obstacles was that many of the things that annoy me are things that I myself can personally change, often because these annoyances are the result of my own actions. The second obstacle I encountered was the fact that many of the things that annoy me do not involve a service or product, and because of this do not present much of an opportunity from an entrepreneurial standpoint. After coming to these two conclusions, writing the bug list became much easier for me because I was able to narrow down the things that bugged me to those that involved products and services in my life.