JCC Extinct First World Problems

The nice thing about first world problems is that sometimes, they disappear, never to be heard from again.

Such as those lonely, lonely hours between midnight and 7 am, when every TV station you get has gone off the air, and abandoned you to the cold embrace of a test pattern.

The heartbreak of not being chosen during the competition for affection known as "Call Waiting."

The anxiety of discovering that your favorite mixtape has developed a twist deep inside, and emergency surgery with tweezers and a ball point pen is necessary.

This thread is dedicated to these forgotten crises. Weep if you are so moved.

 

The frustration of blowing on a game cartridge over, and over, and over again, only to be met by pink and white blocks of pixels scattered around an otherwise blank screen.

 

My friends.

 

Setting up the VCR to record a TV show.

 

What was the setting where the tape would run out really fast? I hated that.

 

The picture quality was slightly better, though.

Lugging around a portable CD player, and having also to have a CD case in tow for when I wanted to listen to music on the go. Switching CD's on the bus, but especially at a bus stop, was terribly annoying.

 

I still use my VCR...

 

I'm sorry.

 

Editing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get enough conventional memory to play X-Wing CD edition.

 

trying to find the book with the directions on how to repair a vehicle only to find it with another technician.

 

When the record skips in the middle of the song.

 

Listening to the neighbors talk instead of being able to make a phone call.

 

Having to get off the internet whenever someone needed to use the phone.

 

breathing on the 16K RAM block on the ZX81 causing the machine to crash

 

Having to get up and actually flip thru the channels on the cable box at my uncle's house.

Having to read the TV guide to know what will actually be on TV.

 

Having to pull over and find a pay phone because you just got a 911 beep.

 

I know of a story from my company back in the 80s where an engineer took out a high powered model home for the night for testing and he ran out of gas on the highway. He got the last eight numbers of the vin number and had to walk five miles to the nearest exit. When he got there he made the call on the pay phone and the emergency hotline wouldn't give him a tow or help unless he had all seventeen numbers of the vin. We use the last 8 for identification purposes. Even to this day.
Not sure how it ended up but afterwards a company memo went around stating you need all 17 numbers of the vin.

 

Waiting in line for tickets for an event.

Actually more like Camping out for an event.

 

Everything in this picture:

 

problems not pictures of stuff,

 

Having to always hear this whenever you went online: