50 problems you shouldn’t worry about (but probably will)

We’ve all got a bad habit of creating problems for ourselves that live in our heads. We expect perfection from the world. Today, I decided to list every irritation that’s come across my mind in the last two days. Around 50, I ran out of complaints. Take a look.

50. This Starbucks line’s taking forever. All I wanted was a black coffee, dammit. They should have a separate VIP line for purists.

49. Tomorrow’s Monday. That means I can’t do whatever I want. Again. This is going to be a weekly thing, isn’t it? Complaining about Monday’s not even original. Nobody cares that I don’t like Monday, and that makes it so much worse.

48. Cold chicken tastes terrible.

47. Microwaved chicken tastes even worse.

46. This person’s taking forever to explain what they want. The request could’ve been so simple. In fact, I could’ve finished doing the thing they want by now. But they’re still talking…

46. Great. Another voicemail that could’ve been an email. Maybe I should send an email to the company list-serv telling people to stop leaving me voice mails. But then that would flood my inbox with emails.

44. That person said “hi” to me, but I don’t know them. Weird. Should I know them? Did I just offend someone?