First World Problems

A while back I posted on “yuppie problems,” which is a bit narrowly defined to a specific socio-economic and age range since a “yuppie” is a young, urban professional.  I recently discovered that a certain website has a feed devoted to “first world problems.”  This is far more encompassing of the kinds of issues that come up in the lives of a variety of Americans.  The website on which you can find this feed is Reddit.  More on Reddit in a future post.  There is a subsection of the site called "First World Problems".  Some selections from this section include:

• I can't find a Gmail theme I like
• I live in the New York City and I cannot find a Chik-fil-A anywhere
• The touch screen on my phone makes it hard for me to text while I drive
• reflection of palm trees on my laptop interferes with my work

I am finding that I have so many first world problems…that is to say, any type of complaint or observation that exits my mouth seems to be one of these.  For example, yesterday I made the following comments in the span of one 15-minute conversation.

• I’m so sleepy; I left my chai latte at the allergist’s office
• I was annoyed on Sunday because my gym class ran 45 minutes over
• I had the hardest time getting into a bottle of moscato wine on Saturday night

In this conversation we went on to talk about how I should document these regularly on my blog, which led to a first world problem about first world problems: how to effectively add the first world problems to my blog – just a tag or a sidebar or what?? I think I’m going with a tag, so I can just post my yuppie/first world problems at random.