1. People directing traffic who are not on the tax payer's payroll

2. Slipping-down socks

3. Lines in Starbucks

4. Getting my bike tires stuck in the Muni tracks in West Portal

5. The express elevator in downtown Nordstrom that only goes to the first floor of the store

6. Snotty salesgirls at frou-frou boutiques like Sarah Shaw: they're selling me clothes, not their attitude.

7. Having to wait in line more than four minutes for a manicure

8. After work industry schmooze events that have cheese and crackers. And there is only cheddar cheese and cheap, un-smelly brie.

9. Toilet paper starting from the bottom of the roll, not the top

10. Guys who write emails using abbreviated hokey words like: whatcha, ya, ya'll

11. Stained business cards in the back pocket of my jeans

12. Whistling ski-rack

13. Groups of Internet industry people talking about how they need to hire more people

14. Swimming goggles that leak

15. Bent nails in my tool box

16. Running out of dishwashing liquid

17. Drivers pausing to look at the sun rising over the South Bay on 101S by the dump

18. The smell of the dump from 101 in South San Francisco

19. Lettuce that has gone soggy

20. Perky ponytails on women who are older than sixteen

21. Cigarette ashes in glasses