Assignment 1- Bug List

Assignment 1-Bug List

1.     Someone eats with their mouth open

a.     WHY does this exist? It exists because it may be an unconscious habit that hasn’t been addressed or the person was not taught to eat their food with their mouths closed.

2.     Drivers who don’t use their turn signal

a.     WHY does this exist? Drivers may forget to use their turn signal when turning off the road or moving into another lane. In addition, it is difficult to get caught for not using your turn signal on the road, so drivers may think they won’t get penalized since the chances of getting caught are slim.

3.     Some teachers excessively give their students more work and harder material than what is necessary for the class

a.     WHY does this exist? Teachers may think this necessary for students to thoroughly learn the material and make it stick better than giving them less work.

4.     Some teachers seem to not care about the quality of teaching they present to their students

a.     WHY does this exist? Teachers may not be as passionate in teaching students than when they first started out, and they may be tired of their jobs and are unwilling to put in consistent hard work.

5.     Breakups over text message

a.     WHY does this exist? The person who is doing the breakup may think their significant other isn’t worth at least giving a phone call, or the person does not want to feel guiltier than they already do hearing their significant other become really upset over the breakup.

6.     Ghosting- breaking up with someone by never talking or contacting them again for a long period of time

a.     WHY does this exist? The person who is doing the breakup does not want to deal with the broken feelings of their significant other, doesn’t fully respect their significant other and their feelings, or does not want to feel guilty for making their significant other upset by breaking up with them.

7.     Dog ears (folded corners of pages) in books

a.     WHY does this exist? People do not have bookmarks to mark their page with, and they don’t realize that folding corners of pages in books make the pages last for a shorter period of time.

8.     Receiving textbooks that are missing pages or are falling apart

a.     WHY does this exist? Schools may not have enough funding to pay for new textbooks or to repair old textbooks.

9.     Drivers who drive too slow in the fast lane

a.     WHY does this exist? Drivers may be inebriated and not realize that they’re even driving in the fast lane, or they don’t care about the pace of the traffic around them and want to drive at their own speed, disregarding the risk of a crash.

10.  Buying a new bag of unopened shredded cheese only to find out there’s mold on it

a.     WHY does this exist? The equipment used to seal the cheese may have been unclean or did not seal the cheese in the bag right, causing the cheese to mold in the bag due to exposure.

11.  Roommates don’t clean the kitchen

a.     WHY does this exist? Roommates may not be willing to clean, or they do not have the motivation to clean kitchen messes.

12.  Roommates don’t clean the common area

a.     WHY does this exist? Roommates may be unconsciously putting off cleaning up their mess in the common area or do not want to bother cleaning their mess up because it may not be a mess in their minds.

13.  Roommates don’t tell you when they’re having friends over

a.     WHY does this exist? They may forget that they planned to have friends over and forgot to tell me, or having their friends over was a spontaneous thing and they didn’t have a lot of time to tell me.

14.  Lack of toilet paper, soap, or paper towels in bathrooms

a.     WHY does this exist? There may be a lack of these things in the buildings that have these bathrooms or employees aren’t checking to see if the bathrooms are stocked with these items throughout the day.

15.  When your food order takes a long time to come out in a restaurant that isn’t busy or does not come out at all and you have to ask the server about it

a.     WHY does this exist? The ticket going to the kitchen may have been lost or the cooks may have forgotten that there was more than one order on the ticket.

16.  Long check-out lines at Walmart

a.     WHY does this exist? Usually when I go to Walmart, less than half of the check-out lines are open, making lines at the ones that are open longer than they have to be. This could also be due to lack of people who work at the register.

17.  Food comes out cold in a restaurant

a.      WHY does this exist? The restaurant could be very busy and therefore, getting food out after they are done cooking could take more time than usual.

18.  Wi-Fi crashing at your apartment so you have to go somewhere else in order to view your online lectures and do homework

a.     WHY does this exist? The apartment complex may have forgotten to pay the bill to the company who provides internet to the buildings of the complex.

19.  When a store is having a sale and one of the digital screens or paper tags shows only the sale price and it’s on a rack with more than one type of item on it

a.      WHY does this exist? The store may not have enough of these tags to label the sales price of all the items on the rack, only one of the items on the rack could be on sale and it’s the customer’s job to ask which item is on sale, or it may be impossible to put the item name on the digital screens showing the sale price.

20.  When the last installment of your favorite video game franchise keeps on getting delayed and ends up being delayed by years

a.     WHY does this exist? The game developers may be really dedicated into giving their audience a very well-made game and want everything to be as perfect as possible down to the little details, or problems with development have risen during the process of making the game, such as switching the engine on which the game developers are making the content.

Reflection:

            At first, I found thinking about the bugs to be difficult, but after coming up with the first five, I was able to imagine myself in various situations and think about the different things that may frustrate me. I would like to believe that I am an observant person, and I was able to examine myself and remember things that have annoyed or frustrated me in the in the past in various situations. In the end, it was not too difficult for me to come up with twenty bugs.

            Personally, thinking about the why’s were more difficult than coming up with the bugs because it required me to put myself in the shoes of the people who may be directly or indirectly behind the bug that I came up with. Thinking of the other person’s perspective when it comes to these bugs is more difficult than finding the bugs themselves because they are my personal bugs found through my personal perspective.

            Overall, I enjoyed doing this assignment because it prodded me to really think about the things that have annoyed me and I simply pushed away. It made me realize that the number of things that have annoyed me is bigger than I originally thought, and thinking of why these bugs exist and considering other people’s perspectives was interesting as well.