# Your current first-world problems
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904 "2021-10-05T02:44:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/41 "2021-10-06T07:26:55Z")
> [@Wallaby](#):
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> I used to have 2 Vinturi wine aerators. Unfortunately, my daughter ‘borrowed’ one, and now I have to aerate my white wines with the red wine aerator.
I have good news for you. I have a Vinturi as well (just one) and IMHO, at least, white wine rarely if ever needs aerating. Let your daughter have the other one with your blessing, and fret no more. In fact, in my experience, relatively young red wines don’t really need it, either.
Wines that need to breathe will usually let you know in a fairly obvious way. In such cases a Vinturi is essential for the ~~desperate wino~~ wine connoisseur anxious to get drinking ASAP. But if they don’t, aerating through a Vinturi is really more of a ceremonial ritual than a necessity. 🙂
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/42 "2021-10-06T07:33:52Z")
> [@Lancia](#):
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> So we have the new house we wanted, my wife has the tapestries she’s wanted since she was in high school, and we have the nice big TV that we wanted for years and had to save up for. But taken together they don’t work.
I guess my opinion on this would depend on just what specific part of the tapestry the TV was hiding, and how much of it. It could potentially be seen as an opportunity to watch TV with a very pleasant background behind it, rather than as a problem. From the sounds of it, the tapestries must be quite large.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/43 "2021-10-06T07:44:28Z")
We ordered food delivery from a local Chinese restaurant. They didn’t secure the lid on the quart of soup, but laid it sideways atop the other containers. When it arrived, everything was drenched, and the “soup” had no broth. Luckily the bottom of the bag had no holes.
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/44 "2021-10-06T17:57:55Z")
None of the Chinese restaurants in my area deliver any more!
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/45 "2021-10-06T18:20:52Z")
In my limited experience most takeout and fast-food places around here tend to farm out their deliveries to services like Uber.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/46 "2021-10-06T18:54:54Z")
I’m low on new library books and might have to re-read some stuff I already own. 😬
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/47 "2021-10-06T21:25:40Z")
Heh. There are books/authors I love to reread. I’ve read everything Elmore Leonard ever wrote, and read some (I’m looking at you, _Rum Punch_) once a year.
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/48 "2021-10-06T23:18:44Z")
I get upset when I have to pay my insurance deductable for medical expenses after I already pay premiums out of my check every week in the greatest country in the world. Then I realize that most of the world has no access to decent healthcare. They just get sick and die or suffer while waiting for a handout.
Still there is lots of room for improvement.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/49 "2021-10-07T00:41:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Rum Punch
Maybe I’ll check it out.
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### Author:  [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/50 "2021-10-07T01:18:34Z")
Here in the desert southwest, the bathroom is seldom cold. When it is, we have a new heater, mounted in the ceiling, that warms the room nicely. We just turn it on a few minutes before taking a shower. So the room is warm, as is the water.
But the shower gel is cold. It doesn’t feel cold when you squirt a little into your palm, but when you then smear it on your body, it feels cold for 2, 3, maybe even 4 seconds.
Winter is coming.
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/51 "2021-10-07T03:15:58Z")
I _hate_ it when that happens so I run hot water over my washcloth before applying the gel. Of course, the only reason I use gels anymore is because I’m staying somewhere that isn’t home and forgot to bring my hand made, environmentally friendly, locally-made with locally sourced ingredients by a single mom, goat milk soap. That’s always such a trial.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/52 "2021-10-07T11:57:48Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Maybe I’ll check it out
For the full immersive experience, read _Rum Punch_, then watch _Jackie Brown_.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/53 "2021-10-07T12:04:44Z")
Well dern. I’ve already seen _Jackie Brown_.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/54 "2021-10-07T12:18:28Z")
Spoiler: The book is better.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/55 "2021-10-07T13:57:57Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#):
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> But the shower gel is cold.
Switch to bar soap. It never feels cold. Water (in the gel) has an enormous thermal mass and is why the gel feels cold.
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### Author:  [@Jd11100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jd11100)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/56 "2021-10-07T15:58:44Z")
I’m sitting here trying to figure out how I managed to misplace a loveseat…
I bought it this summer, along with a sofa from my neighbors when they remodeled their basement. Now it’s gone? Who loses furniture? Asked all of my children and they’re clueless, husband has no ideas. Maybe it was just the weirdest robbery ever…idk.
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/57 "2021-10-07T16:10:19Z")
A loveseat? [US-style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveseat#/media/File:Red_sofa.jpg) or the [British variant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveseat#/media/File:Love_seat_-_garden_furniture_cropped.jpg), which, as it seems, originated in France? Be it as it may, I don’t know how somebody could lose such a thing, I reckon somebody just threw it away without asking you first. Or maybe they burnt it. I can only wonder why.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/58 "2021-10-07T16:15:11Z")
> [@Jd11100](#):
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> I managed to misplace a loveseat…
When I moved in with my gf 15 years ago, I brought a Mr Coffee Iced Tea Maker with me. I forgot all about it until this summer when I was in the mood for fresh brewed iced tea. I spent several hours looking for it. My gf eventually caved in and told me she threw it out 14 years ago.
She bought me a new one, though.
ETA: I’ll ask her about the loveseat later today.
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### Author:  [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/59 "2021-10-07T16:18:24Z")
> [@Jd11100](#):
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> I’m sitting here trying to figure out how I managed to misplace a loveseat…
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> I bought it this summer, along with a sofa from my neighbors when they remodeled their basement. Now it’s gone? Who loses furniture? Asked all of my children and they’re clueless, husband has no ideas. Maybe it was just the weirdest robbery ever…idk.
Check your dryer - it’s a portal to & from other dimensions for socks and other seemingly lost things.
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### Author:  [@Jd11100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jd11100)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904/60 "2021-10-07T16:27:29Z")
It was the American version for sure. I guess I’ll check the dryer. A supernatural explanation seems way more likely. I can’t even get these people to pick up socks from the living room floor without being asked (twice). The idea that someone got rid off it in an effort to “tiddy up” is unrealistic.
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