What's mildly irritating you today?

[Juniper]

Black Friday, and the insistent pull from both media and real-life people telling me that we HAVE TO go shopping today and buy a whole bunch of crap we don't need because it's ON SALE!

Yes, I need to get a few Christmas gifts, but what's on sale is rarely what I want anyway.

So I was shopping on Amazon last night, found some decent deals, but then my ISP cut out. Probably too many people using the pipeline or something (doesn't cable do that sometimes? I'm so dumb about that stuff). And I was too tired to mess with it so I went to bed, and after re-setting the modem, I found that everything is about $5 higher now. Figures.

Also: kids who are too old for toys but too young for expensive electronics and don't know what they want in-between.

Also: having to come up with a list of my own. Usually if I want something, I just go buy it myself. Christmas means that if I see something I want, I have to WAIT for it. Damn, I'm spoiled.