First world problems! Share them here!

[Puget]

Both of my socks had huge (3 cm) holes in the heels and they both got bigger throughout the day.

Among the emergency supplies in my office is an extra pair of socks. Never go anywhere without an extra pair of socks. Or your towel.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Toe? Heel?

Did you get blisters?

M.

Heels. Actually no blisters. I was running late and threw them on and forgot about them until several hours later when I noticed how large the holes were. The socks were really stretched out, so one of the holes kind of migrated up my leg while the other moved to the top of my other foot.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Both of my socks had huge (3 cm) holes in the heels and they both got bigger throughout the day.

Among the emergency supplies in my office is an extra pair of socks. Never go anywhere without an extra pair of socks. Or your towel.

That's the funny thing. I HAD an extra pair of socks in my bag, but didn't realize it until the end of the day. Mondays are kind of a whirlwind for me. Yep, need a towel and peanuts.

[dismalist]

Both of my socks had huge (3 cm) holes in the heels and they both got bigger throughout the day.

This is the kind of thing that made Charles Dickens, seeing socks with holes in them, washed, on clothes lines in London, take it upon himself to decry capitalism. Had he only bothered to look in the countryside, where people had no socks to put onto clotheslines, he might have written differently. Socks were previously something only the nobility could afford.

Let us be grateful for our socks, with or without holes! :-)

[mamselle]

Source?

M.

[dismalist]

Source?

M.

He who seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh the door shall be opened. Therefore ...

[FishProf]

My dictation software is slower than I can type.

[mamselle]

My dictation software is slower than I can type.

I hear your pain.

I helped a friend with serious CTS edit her final thesis draft.

She'd dictated the whole thing on Dragon-Sys.

M.

[the_geneticist]

My favorite scent of shampoo is out of stock.  There is another scent that is nice, but not quite as nice and I don't want to have different scented shampoo and conditioner.

[Langue_doc]

Three of the muni meters on the same street weren't working so I left without going to the store.  When I called 311 about the same inoperative meters about three weeks ago, I was told that they needed the meter numbers and not the exact street address to even check the meters.

I just relegated the problem to our local elected rep's office. I am not standing in front of a meter, quarters in hand, bag in the other, writing down the number or taking pictures of the meter.

[dismalist]

Three of the muni meters on the same street weren't working so I left without going to the store.  When I called 311 about the same inoperative meters about three weeks ago, I was told that they needed the meter numbers and not the exact street address to even check the meters.

I just relegated the problem to our local elected rep's office. I am not standing in front of a meter, quarters in hand, bag in the other, writing down the number or taking pictures of the meter.

Alas, it's a whole world problem, named "bureaucracy".

How better than to have it explained by example of the airport named after Franz Kafka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

[jimbogumbo]

Source?

M.

He who seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh the door shall be opened. Therefore ...

I was so glad when the newer versions used seeks and knocks rather than seeketh and knocketh. Reading and hearing the King James always made me think of Daffy Duck.

[Langue_doc]

Three of the muni meters on the same street weren't working so I left without going to the store.  When I called 311 about the same inoperative meters about three weeks ago, I was told that they needed the meter numbers and not the exact street address to even check the meters.

I just relegated the problem to our local elected rep's office. I am not standing in front of a meter, quarters in hand, bag in the other, writing down the number or taking pictures of the meter.

Alas, it's a whole world problem, named "bureaucracy".

How better than to have it explained by example of the airport named after Franz Kafka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

Ah, bureaucracy. A few weeks ago I had to call 311 to report a homeless person sprawled across a flight of stairs in one of the subway stations. The person I talked to advised me to call the advocate for the homeless and followed this up with an email giving me the phone number of the advocate. No, no, no. You (employees working in the subway stations) are paid to make the necessary phone calls as are the police in the subway stations, whose eyes are glued to their phones. We, the riders are often dealing with long trips, transfers, and slow service. A week later when I saw an individual camped by the entrance to a subway station, happily mxxxxxxxxing, I decided that alerting anyone would be a waste of my time, so kept walking.

[mamselle]

Source?

M.

He who seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh the door shall be opened. Therefore ...

Ummm....that's the KJV, not Dickens....I meant, I don't recall Dickens ever saying that, or writing it, or seeing it said or written of him.

M.

ETA...I guess I'm not the only one.

M.

Oh, and, again ETA:

The real reason I came here was to complain about the blur feature on my Zoom screen.

I have to go back in, un-blur it, and then re-blur it, if I want to hold up a piece of music or my latest teaching aid (a small skeleton, correctly jointed, for showing bone articulations where joint shapes matter for correct playing positions).

I need a blur toggle.

M.   

[ergative]

My super-cheapo MP3 player (I do not have a smartphone) has decided that sound files which exist in mono rather than stereo format only should play in my left ear. This means that every time I download a sound file in mono format I must run a macro in Audacity to convert it to stereo, which doubles the file size. But whatever. I created the macro, it's fine.

Except I have a whole bunch of audiobooks I got from the library and they're all in mono and I thought I'd run the macro on them but they're still only playing in my left ear and it takes a while to load them into audacity so it's non-trivial to check whether they're mono or stereo before trying to play them and everything is a massive hassle and I just wish that my mp3 player would do the sensible thing and send mono tracks to both ears. Argh.