Bug List

Chad Girnun Bug List

1. When people in line at a restaurant don’t know what they want to order. This causes them to then either search over the menu once in line or ask the employees at the restaurant recommendations for food, allowing for the line to back up.

Why: People are unaware of what’s on the menu prior to ordering and get distracted talking in line.

2. Uneven sidewalks that cause you to randomly trip when walking. This occurs when going up or downhill often, and makes you pay fine attention to the leveling of the sidewalk. It is more prevalent in northern states because it occurs from the sidewalks freezing and the ground shifting during seasonal changes.

Why: Changes in weather, such as the freezing of the ground during winter, moves the sidewalk making it uneven causing one to trip when not fully paying attention.

3. Not successfully plugging in your IPhone all the way so that your phone doesn’t get charged resulting in low battery and a stressful situation the next day. More specifically, when I have an alarm set on my phone and because the charger didn’t charge my battery, my alarm to wake up for class never goes off.

Why: The IPhone requires the charger to fully go in. Newer chargers that charge the phone by placing it on a surface reduce this issue, however, sometimes the charger is at an odd angle and the wiring and wrapping around the wiring isn't strong enough to help allow the phone to charge.

4. At Marston library when people see one another during the day and start talking extremely loud despite the quite ambiance of the library and the fact that the purpose of the library is to accomplish work.

Why: Humans naturally have a strong desire to interact with one another in a social way especially when the alternative to talking to one another means doing work or studying, which no one wants to do.

5. The volume on your phone when you plug in headphones being on high because you previously had your volume high to speak to someone on the phone. When plugging in my headphones to go to the gym the music blares in my ears startling me and hurting my ears.

Why: To hear someone on the phone you need to turn the volume all the way up but you don’t have a pre-determined volume for headphones so the volume is at full blast when plugging in headphones.

6. The Boars Head Deli by Little Hall running out of Roast Beef and Asiago Cheese Bread after approximately 1 P.M. because of the high demand.

Why: Because Boars Head has high traffic around lunch hours and they don’t properly plan how much deli meat and bread that they will be needing. This causes a shortage because of poor planning.

7. Command hooks being unable to support a canvas material causing my poster in my room to fall over on top of me while I am sleeping.

Why: The stick material on command hooks are unable to stick to the canvas of large banners. This makes it hard for a banner to successfully stick to a surface.

8. Packages in the Broward dormitory not being put into the Packcity mailboxes until several days after a package delivers because the staff waits until there is a significant number of packages rather than quickly placing one or two packages every time they are delivered.

Why: The staff that fill up the Packcity package container only fill it up at the end of the day or the next day. This causes a backup on packages because you can be waiting an extra day to receive a package that you could really need.

9. Placing a cold-water bottle into my backpack only to find that it “sweat” over my textbooks and the paper inside of my bag causing other objects in my backpack to get moist or slightly wet and significantly bothering me.

Why: When the water bottle is cold causing it to sweat. The water droplets get over the rest of the backpack causing this to happen. Some water bottles contain two layers as to prevent sweat.  

10. Doing laundry and using a credit card to pay for it often doesn’t work because the card readers in the laundry room are of insanely poor quality so that it takes extra time to even start the laundry process because of paying for it.

Why: The laundry machine card reading technology is slightly outdated and ruined after no one taking care of them so they need to be replaced by newer and better working technology.

11. When in Chicago during the wintertime, going in and out of the cold to the train to take the “L” the difference in temperature causes one to get slightly sick or somewhat nauseous.

Why: It’s too expensive to air condition the “L” train to make the difference in temperature between outside and the L more similar. Additionally, to some, the warm train offers a nice break from the intense cold of outside.

12.  When drinking from a Yeti tumbler and the lip of the Yeti is shaped oddly so that the water spills past the edges of your mouth.

Why: The shape of the Yeti mouth is too large to drink from unless you open your mouth wide. This could b hanged quickly by design.

13. Searching for a song that is spelled with symbols or incorrectly by the artist in Spotify that stops the song from appearing in search results despite being spelled accurately and being an extremely popular song.

Why: Because the artist, for whatever reason, used an unusual spelling or symbols to title their song and the algorithmic search approach doesn’t include different spelled versions when searched or used on Spotify.

14. The refrigerator in my dorm room having the “coldest” setting able to freeze any liquid in the fridge when really its purpose is as a fridge so it should not have a capability of a freezer because that is misleading.

Why: The fridge gives the ability to freeze items, however, it is an inconvenience for anyone that bought the fridge because it is overdoing its function.

15. The water fountains in Broward hall not being cold enough causing me to have to then refrigerate water to get cold water or accept a warmer water while I drink.

Why: The fountain doesn’t have the technology

16. Mechanical pencils being too thin so the led constantly breaks while writing. This is an issue because mechanical pencils are more convenient because they don’t require sharpening, however, when they break often they have a shorter period of use.

Why: The led that fits in the mechanical pencil is thin because of the pencil design. Additionally, it is thin because that is the type of led that is accepted for use in school settings like on Scranton’s.

17. Chairs that have uneven legs so when using them, the person sitting in the rocks back and forth and has a harder time focusing because of it.

Why: The screws in chairs wear down over time and it ends up affecting how the legs of the chair sit.

18. The Wi-Fi in UF dorms randomly going off so that when using Facetime, your call gets disconnected or you can’t hear what the person you were communicating with said.

Why: The overload of people using the Wi-Fi to occasionally go out because of the service being overloaded.

19. At a green light on a busy road like Archer with a good amount of traffic, when people sit there instead of directly going when the light turns green. Sometimes this stops one or two people from crossing the light that previously could’ve.

Why: People are too distracted at the lights by their phone since using your phone while driving is not heavily enforced in most areas of the country.

20. Doors at the entrances to buildings being unnecessarily heavy so it was hard to open them. This can be seen for the doors out of most buildings in the University of Florida for example.

Why: The doors are heavy so that they don’t too commonly swing open or get affected by outside weather. However, the hinges on the door aren’t able to handle the door weight and the doors often lack lubrication.

     The difficulty in coming up with this list was mainly just the time. I had to actively remember any time something bothered or bugged me and type it up in my phone notes. After doing that, it wasn’t as hard to conquer. As you can see by looking at my bugs, they come from everyday experiences that could happen to anyone but just bother me. I find most of them reasonable and others to be manufacturing problems that weren’t thought all the way through. As someone who finds it easy to get bothered it didn’t seem too bad t