30 Everyday Inconveniences That We All Need To Solve ASAP

We all face pesky little problems every day. Despite putting a person on the moon and successfully performing surgery on a grape, we still can’t seem to make movie dialogue louder than the background music. And those TV remotes? Why haven’t they come equipped with a “Find Me” feature yet?

It’s enough to make anyone frustrated. One person on Reddit felt the same and posed a question to fellow internet users: “What’s a small, everyday inconvenience that you believe should have been solved by now?” The responses poured in, covering a range of annoyances, from crackling audio in drive-thrus to the eternal struggle with opening bacon packaging. Join the conversation as we commiserate over these little annoyances and maybe even brainstorm some solutions together. After all, sometimes it’s the small victories that make life easier.

1. Automated systems have taken all the flexibility away.

That we need to go back to having humans answer phones at businesses. The automated systems are inefficient, and most times just maddening. Those systems need to GO!

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2. I swear you try to make sense of a scene based on the music only because you can:thear the dialogues.

Music volume in movies being much louder than the dialog.

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And commercials blaring louder than the feature show.

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3. Especially those ketchup sachets. It is a proper scam.

When a food package says “peel here” or “tear here” and it never f-cking works and you need to get scissors or a knife to open the package.

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4. That’s why insurance companies are so rich.

Insurance that doesn’t stop at the neck. My eyes, ears, and teeth are all part of my body, vital to health, and shouldn’t require separate policies. Jeeze.

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5. I feel like getting out of my car and smacking that person in the face who has these lights installed.

It’s a newer thing, but I wish they’d do something about LED headlights. They’re just too bright. MY incandescent ones light up the road for me perfectly, and they don’t blind everyone who drives past me as well.

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6. There’s a sticker residue on my credit card and I hate it.

Those stickers on products that leave sticker residue when pulling them off. So now you have sticky goo with paper bits on your cup.

othybear:

I hate it when they do this with book covers: ‘Now a major motion picture!’

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7. What is the point of uploading it then?

Uploading your resume then having to enter everything on the resume on the next screen.

lazarus870:

I hope the person who invented that has a life full of inconveniences.

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8. In case of medicine I support this strategy, so that children can’t access the pills easily.

Those huge plastic packages, that are basically impossible to open, yet hold only one small item. C’mon team, think!

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The inventors of blister packaging should go straight to the seventh circle. They brought pure evil on this earth.

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9. An unresolved inconvenience.

Daylight saving time.

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10. Pockets on a woman’s jean pant are just there for show.

Not sure if it has been mentioned but the size of pockets on women’s jeans. They are significantly smaller than men’s requiring women to carry a purse.

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11. Those yogurt lids make a huge mess.

1. Tags (especially the more plasticy ones) on the side seam of a shirt. If you try to pull the tag out completely, the seam rips. If you try to cut the tag off, you’re still left with the pokey ends. Let’s go completely tagless. The technology exists.
2. Foil yogurt lids that spray yogurt all over you when you open them.

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12. I hate it when there is no option to “reject” the cookies.

Having to click on the Accept Cookies option for every single blo*dy website.

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13. God knows when will they stop.

Spam and scam calls and emails.

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14. Tax is such a simple concept. Humans have made it so complex.

American here – every year I get so mad about taxes. Not the fact that I have to pay them (though I do wish our government had different priorities, but I digress), but the whole process of it is f$&@ing imbecilic. The government knows how much I owe, why don’t they just take out the correct amount automatically. Noooo instead it’s either I give the government an interest free loan, owe more money (which always feels bad), pay an agency to file my own taxes, and then if I get it wrong they tell me SO THEY KNEW THE AMOUNT THE WHOLE TIME.

I feel a tirade coming on, I need to walk away.

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15. Wet wipes are the least cooperative.

Wet wipes. Not being able to pull one out and when you finally get hold of one, four come out.

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Some of the inconveniences that have just seen and some that you are about to see are literally so easy to resolve. But they still don’t do it. Purpose they enjoy seeing us struggle.

Either way, one thing has to be said. When you see all these issues compiled at one place, it does make you laugh a little. Our issues are so hilarious.

16. This can actually be very dangerous.

Invisible lane markings when roads are wet.

Aczidraindrop:

Here in PA we have no street lights and the lines become invisible when it rains. It can be legitimately terrifying to drive it when it’s like that. It makes absolutely no sense. It’s so insanely dangerous.

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17. It’s really not that hard to put a zipper on a bag. It should be made a standard.

Cereal bags not having a zipper closure.

FlatBot:

My wife and I rant about this regularly. Not just cereal bags, but basically any non-single-use food product. Why don’t any food packages reseal effectively? Ziplock technology exists!

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18. As doing so might end the hot dog business.

Hot dog buns not being sold in same number as hot dogs.

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19. Even if you go through all the unread mail, there will emerge more unread mail.

Junk mail, and the idea of unaddressed mail in general. Seriously, it’s a huge waste of time and resources, nobody likes it. If people want the coupons or info or whatever, it should be opt-in at whatever store.

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20. And it’s not even a hard thing to incorporate. When will they do it?

All wireless controller devices should have an easy way to locate them. If I can’t find my TV remote, video game controller, etc, I should be able to go over to the device, hit a button, and the device starts beeping.

I really hope you guys enjoyed this one. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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21. That would honestly be a nightmare for me.

Having hundreds of passwords, you have to change every 90 days, across different devices…

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22. Won’t that defeat the purpose of the TV being “smart”?

My “smart TV” has no f*****g buttons on the actual TV.

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23. We’ve got ENC technology in earbuds now for the best calling experience but the worst drive-thru speakers.

The extremely poor audio quality of fast food drive-thru speakers. How in 2024 can it even sound that bad? HOW?

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24. Again, a very achievable concept but they still don’t do it.

Wireless bra pads staying in place. Why, oh why, are they not just sewn in place??

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25. It hurts when you see it get added at the end. I don’t know why.

USA specific – adding sales tax to the label/listed price.

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26. No excuses shall be allowed.

Pot holes. F*****g POT HOLES!! When a head of the department of transportation for *any city* says they don’t have enough money to fix pot holes, they should immediately be fired. It’s literally the *main reason* for their existence, to maintain roads. If they can’t budget effectively enough to ensure their primary responsibility is taken care of, they sure has hell can’t be trusted to do anything else.

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27. We end up wasting so much time on medical history collection.

Universal medical records. It is insane that you have to fill out a medical history at every doctors office you go to and rely on your own memory or worse, a family member’s memory of all of your medications and diagnoses for your entire life.

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28. Every freaking time.

“Your computer needs to restart right this second to install critical updates f**k what you’re in the middle of.”

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29. Period products just don’t make sense.

Period products, man! And possibly even healthy period-elimination products!

Like, stop the period cramps and discharge until you’re ready to have a baby. Isolate the egg, let that pass through if need be. Or allow all the uterine lining to come out in one swift motion. There has to be *something* that doesn’t completely screw up your psyche, and helps with PMS.

Or something better than tampons, which can give you TSS within at least 8 hours. Pads rub against your thighs all day (I’ve used cloth & disposable), diva cups are difficult and messy for me to put in/take out. Seriously this is 1/4 of our lives people. It should be a better experience by now!!

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