Assignment 2A - Bugs List

Bug List

Bug: When traffic stops on I4 because people are rubbernecking

Why: People slow down when there are accidents or people are pulled over both for safety reasons and because they want to see what happened. This causes a chain reaction of cars slowing down more and more until traffic briefly comes to a stop.

Bug: When the shower takes a long time to heat up

Why:  The plumbing in my house is not a direct heat supply to each faucet so the hot water has to run through the house before it gets to the shower.

Bug: When drivers use exit lanes to get ahead of everyone else, causing more traffic

Why: I believe that this issue is caused by the human need to get ahead, and also the human hate of traffic. So people want to get home quicker and will sometimes do things that benefit themselves at the cost of everyone else.

Bug: When the Fat Daddy’s line is already extremely long at 9:00 PM on Wednesdays

Why: Since bars have occupancy limits, they eventually have to stop letting people in. Every week that Fat’s is busy and people aren’t let in, they come earlier the following week to avoid this issue and the usual time that people arrive gets earlier.

Bug: When classes are “weed out” classes that are meant to make people change majors

Why: UF students declare their major in their freshman year instead of proving their merit in the first two years before getting into a certain college. This allows majors and colleges to become overpopulated and creates the need to make people change majors.

Bug:  When investment banks recruit for summer internships over a year and a half before the start date

Why: Every year, top investment banks are looking for the best talent so one bank will jump the gun on every other bank by opening their application and every other bank will follow in suit. Year to year, the day that the first bank opens their application is earlier than the year before because of this.

Bug:  When people do not use the far left turn lane at the intersection by my house and only one can be used since it backs up far enough to block the far left lane.

Why: This intersection is very close to I4 so most people are commuting to Orlando and don’t use the far left turn lane as it would be more difficult to merge onto the interstate after turning.

Bug: When there is ice on my windshield and I don’t have anything to get it off with

Why: Living in Florida, this problem does not come often so I am never prepared for it when it does.

Bug: The buzzing noise that comes from my blown subwoofer

Why: I played music, with too much bass, too loud in my truck and now the subwoofer has blown. Since I still listen to music, it makes a buzzing noise that will persist until I put a new subwoofer in.

Bug: When my computer at work freezes or slows down due to large excel models

Why: Sometimes at work, there are many different applications running alongside very large excel models that cause too much stress for the computer to handle. This results in slow operation and sometimes full freezing of the computer.

Bug: When I drink coffee too soon and it burns my tongue and mouth.

Why: This problem seems to be personal as I continue to do this even though I know the coffee is going to be hot right when it is ready. But it happens because the coffee is brewed at 192 degrees and does not cool down very fast.

Bug: When bears that live in the woods behind my house scatter the trash from the can around our driveway and yard.

Why: I am the last one to leave the house in the morning but it is a long time before the trash service comes which allows ample time for a nosy bear to have a light snack of rotten eggs and used tissues

Bug: When I need to go to the DMV or tax collector’s office but can’t find time since they close at the same time or before I get off work.

Why: Government employees are not going to be paid overtime, so offices close at specific times that do not allow that. This usually occurs during normal business hours so I would have to take off work to find a time to go.

Bug: When satellite TV cuts out during a live sporting event I am watching.

Why: Rain and storms cause satellite service to be disrupted so bad weather causes this.

Bug: When UF parking tickets me for parking in the driveway of my own house even though I was only parking their momentarily to pick something up

Why: UF parking has an obligation to enforce parking rules and it technically isn’t a parking space

Bug: Having to take ProctorU exams while at school.

Why: I actually don’t know why we have to take exams online, but I assume it has to do with reducing costs for the school.

Bug: When I have to search for quarters to do my laundry at school.

Why: Our washers and dryers do not accept cards so we have to use quarters for them to operate.

Bug: When there are ads during youtube videos.

Why: In order to continue operating and providing a free service, youtube has to gain ad revenue by putting ads into certain videos

Bug: When I get home and the keypad for the garage door doesn’t work

Why: The pulley system pulls power from the house but the actual keypad runs off a battery so it eventually dies and the batteries need to be replaced

Bug: When I don’t get what I ordered in a drive through line

Why: I honestly think workers are less careful about getting drive through orders correct because they usually won’t have to deal with the angry customer but I am not sure if this is why this happens.

Creating this list was much more difficult than I expected. When I saw the assignment, I thought it would be extremely easy but I was wrong. I made a note in my phone for a few days and wrote things down as they bugged me but this only got me to around 10 bugs. For the second half of my bugs I had to think a lot more about what bugs me that has a reason that isn’t caused by me. This is why it was more difficult because many of the things that bug me are usually a result of my own actions when I think about them deeply.