First World Problems: Share the Silliest Things That Bug You!

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Working on vehicles requires two sets of tools, standard and metric. Geez engineers, just pick one.
 
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Geez engineers, just pick metric.

Fixed that for you. 95% of the world population uses SI, 5% uses imperial units. Which one would you call "standard"?
 
First World Problem: I am in need of a cat safe computer keyboard.
 
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Psinter said:
Not first world per se, but...

When the number of sausages don't match the number of buns.
What I really don't understand is why they haven't taken it the logical next steps.

1. Add cheese slices to the mix. 8 buns plus 12 dogs plus 14 cheese slices means they have to buy enough for 168 complete dogs.

2. Use prime numbers. 7 dogs , 11 buns and 13 cheeses means they have to buy enough for 1,001.
 
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Borg said:
to which he replied that the sign was wrong.
Which is illegal, by the way.
You were within your legal rights to demand to pay only the advertized price.