Bug List
1) The bridge going into Cape Coral at 5pm during a weekday.
a. The bridge going into Cape Coral is one of two bridges that enter the city through Fort Myers. There’s no other way in unless you are going by boat.
2) The fact that I care too much about people and they care very little for me.
a. I get this trait from my mother and I can’t help but put others before my own needs.
3) Every day I come to work, the fruit is never cut properly when we have clear instructions for what to do.
a. We move people up through the company that are lazy and don’t like to follow proper instructions and make it easier on everyone.
4) I can’t stand that my boyfriends’ development yells at for me parking on the side of the house when they have only have one car driveways.
a. This exists because they only have one car driveways.
5) My niece’s mother only lets my brother see his daughter every two weeks.
a. The mediation that they agreed to only lets my brother see his daughter once every two weeks instead of it being more. My brother has a clean record despite what the mediator said.
6) J-walkers walk across the road wherever they feel like and act like you are in the wrong.
a. People feel as if they can do what they want even though the law says otherwise.
7) Professional athletes complain about not making enough money when there are people not making any.
a. Money is the reason they play professionally.
8) When people tell me that I should get a “real job” instead of bartending.
a. People feel as if the workers of the restaurant could select any job that they want even if they are only qualified for a restaurant.
9) It irritates me that the drive-thru Dunkin Donuts’ in North Fort Myers always gives me mocha iced coffee instead of caramel.
a. They probably don’t hear me correctly through the microphone. It exists every time because I don’t correct them.
10) My boyfriend’s dog smells so bad. No matter how many times we clean her she smells awful.
a. We don’t clean her bedding enough when we should every week.
11) Every Subway I go to seems to be out of buffalo sauce but when I go to the one in Gateway, they always have buffalo chicken.
a. Subways are all privately owned and each store carries different products.
12) When I’m driving somewhere during the day, people feel the need to cut me off and make me slam on my brakes like I don’t exist.
a. People are in a hurry and think of themselves rather than others around them.
13) When playing basketball, I can’t make a wide open lay-up no matter when it is.
a. During a game I get too nervous and panic when I go to shoot a lay-up.
14) I had to cut shrimp out of my diet because my boyfriend is allergic to shellfish. I love shrimp so much and it GRINDS MY GEARS that I cannot eat it around him or near him.
a. This exists because of my boyfriends shellfish allergy.
15) It bugs me that my boyfriend’s little brother takes 45 minute showers in the morning when I have to get up and get ready to go to work.
a. I have to be honest, I’m not sure why this one exists. I believe he is trying to wake himself up in the morning.
16) I don’t understand how Krispy Kreme can be 24 hours and be out of EVERY doughnut on the menu at 2am except for original glazed.
a. This is their slowest time and they are making fresh batches for the early risers for work.
17) When people are ordering a beer at my bar, they pronounce Bud Light as Bood Light.
a. Some people are visiting from a foreign country and don’t know how to pronounce everything the way we are used to.
18) When I’m asking my guests if they want anything else after they finish their meal, more than half of them say “a million dollars” like I have it to spare.
a. This exists because people like to make jokes with the waitstaff.
19) Every time I go to the library in Downtown Fort Myers I can never get a table because there are people sleeping on them all.
a. Most of the people asleep in the library are homeless and have nowhere else to go when it is raining.
20) It bugs me that I need sleep so I’m not cranky all day long.
a. Your body needs sleep in order to keep going. So eventually my body will need to rest so that I won’t wake up cranky.
Reflection
I found this list extremely difficult to write. There are many things that bug me throughout the day and new ones pop up as I’m just sitting there. I thought about this list all week and constantly rewrote things that bugged me. We don’t realize how much the littlest things could bother us when there are real problems in the world today. Most of them can be solved easily but others will take time. A lot of my bugs have had to do with work because I spend 60 hours or more at work every week. I tried to keep it away from there because I do have things that bother me outside of work but mainly it is my job that bugs me.
