# Post something you are missing lately (trivial or not) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832 "2005-03-04T00:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/1 "2005-03-04T00:55:14Z")
One thing I really miss lately is high-quality surround sound music. I had this before I bought a laptop and sold my Desktop PC. My intention was to buy the external Soundblaster (exdigy?) and a fairly expensive (£200-£400) ‘more-than-stereo’ (5.1, 6.1, whatever) speaker system. Being the ultimate procrastinator, I’ve had my laptop for over a year now and I’m still putting up with listening to music through it’s four tiny speakers. What are you missing lately? (If the thing you miss is far less trivial, such as a loved one. That’s ok. All is welcome here. We’ve had threads in the past where the trivial and significant alike mingled freely without much controversy) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/2 "2005-03-04T01:13:35Z")
I miss **Wonderfalls**. I got the DVD set, and it’s great, but that doesn’t make me not miss this quirky, touching little show. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/3 "2005-03-04T01:16:51Z")
Job satisfaction. A sense of accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/4 "2005-03-04T01:23:55Z")
I miss poutine. That’s french fries with gravy and cheese curds. Nobody down here knows what it is, or will venture to make it. I haven’t had any in seven years. P.S.: I’ve never heard surround sound. Don’t know anybody who has such a system. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/5 "2005-03-04T01:30:06Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > That’s french fries with gravy and cheese curds. Sounds an awful lot like “Chips, cheese, n’Gravy” which is curiously popular on the Isle of Man. I am yet to sample it. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/6 "2005-03-04T01:32:19Z")
Hie thee out to a chip place and get some, NOW! You’ll thank me! ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/7 "2005-03-04T01:33:29Z")
My father. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/8 "2005-03-04T01:39:06Z")
My mom’s world-famous baked ziti. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/9 "2005-03-04T01:44:04Z")
-Being able to take a drive in the country -Choice in restaurants -non-parka weather -my WOMAN! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/10 "2005-03-04T01:44:46Z")
Henry myself Not necessarliy in that order. And not necessarily otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/11 "2005-03-04T01:56:40Z")
I’m renovating, so I miss a bathtub and a kitchen. But my new [one(s)](http://www.jasonint.com/products/index.cfm?page=dsp_product&line=&type=w&shape=rectangle&size=72&submit3=Search) will be worth the wait. I also miss my little fluffy purring man, kitty [Wookiee,](http://www.lakesidebreeze.com/pictures/3Cats102000.jpg) who we had to put to sleep last June because of lymphoma ☹ He’s the guy on the top tier. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/12 "2005-03-04T01:58:48Z")
I miss the summer. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/13 "2005-03-04T02:06:07Z")
I miss home, my family, and my best friends. Luckily I go home for spring break tomorrow. My friend Steve’s break is the week after mine, though, which sucks. I miss eating food besides bagels and cereal (such is the life of a college student). Again, I’m going home for a week tomorrow, which will fix that. I miss sleep, which is another thing I’ll get at home. I wanna go home. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/14 "2005-03-04T02:20:24Z")
Ghent, Belgium. Millennium (the show. Also Buffy, X-files, Twin Peaks, the Muppet Show, Futurama, and Simpsons back in the day) Chicken livers and onions. Mom’s fried chicken. Mom, sometimes. The “chilli relleno burrito.” The old NPR Morning Edition theme tune that sucked less. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/15 "2005-03-04T02:25:47Z")
My self-discipline. Since finals start next week that’s something of a problem. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/16 "2005-03-04T02:25:54Z")
Rain. And being able to snuggle under the quilt when it’s cold and howling outside. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/17 "2005-03-04T02:26:27Z")
My flip answer was going to be “a life” but that was before I realized you have to have actually had something to miss it… so anyway… I miss my kitty (and namesake) I miss the long talks we (family-not the cat) used to always have around the dinner table I miss sunwarmed tomatoes fresh from the garden And I seem to be miss_ing_ a green-handled pair of scissors. I think one of my cats might be plotting something. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/18 "2005-03-04T02:28:21Z")
Food not involving tortillas and hot sauce. THat’s the secret to making cafeteria food here tolerable: slap some in a tortilla, slather with hot sauce, consume. Free time. Money. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/19 "2005-03-04T02:37:45Z")
I miss being pregnant. It was all over way too fast. While I’m glad my little micropremie is doing well, I miss having her inside me. I was really looking forward to the last trimester, including all the awful things like strangers trying to touch my big belly and trudging up three flights of stairs to my apartment with a belly like a watermelon. As it turned out, I had to deliver her just when I was starting to show a teeny bit. So I guess I miss what I was looking forward to, but didn’t get to do. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Violaceous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832/20 "2005-03-04T02:51:47Z")
I miss my best friend, my own personal Canuck, and my boyfriend. All one person. I also miss the delightful coffee of his homeland. I have a big can of the brew-at-home kind they sell at the grocery stores up there, but it’s not the same! It’s not the same!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-you-are-missing-lately-trivial-or-not/292832.md?page=2)