2A - Bug List

1. The drive-thru line at the Chick-Fil-A on Dale Mabry will back up onto the road at any normal meal times.
   Why: The line is too short and there is a gas station next to it, so there is no room to expand
2. You have to pay an extra fee to get your recycling picked up in Delaware where my grandparents live.
   Why: Picking up the recycling is not included in county taxes and residents can choose their own provider instead of the recycling being picked up by the county.
3. The Springs Complex dorms are freezing all the time.
   Why: The thermostats are too old or not functioning correctly.
4. The services at the Hair Cuttery on Dale Mabry are very inconsistent.
   Why: Each stylist employed by the store has a different level of expertise and there is no way of knowing who has more experience when you walk in.
5. When store websites (such as Target and Home Depot) say something is in stock, but it isn’t when you get there.
   Why: There is a glitch in the computer system or a lag between when someone purchases an item and when the website is updated.
6. It takes about 30-40 minutes to get to my job that is only 9.2 miles away.
   Why: The traffic on Dale Mabry and Bruce B. Downs is awful.
7. Items ordered from the online retailer, Romwe, take way longer to ship than originally estimated at checkout.
   Why: The company overestimates their abilities to get their items to people and do not take into account extenuating circumstances that could change this time frame.
8. You have to sign an apartment lease almost a year in advance to get the best price.
   Why: To ensure that you’re filling a spot, and the higher the supply of apartments, the cheaper the lease price.
9. High school starts during rush hour, meaning you have to get up earlier to leave earlier then you should have to.
   Why: The schools do this so that students can get out of school earlier and be able to have a job after school.
10. Dunkin Donuts on Dale Mabry has very bad customer service.
    Why: The franchise does not train their employees on customer service.
11. It takes a year or more for a new season of a show to come out on Netflix.
    Why: It takes a lot of time to cast, shoot, and produce a new season of a show.
12. The ice maker in my freezer cannot keep up with the amount of ice that my family uses.
    Why: The ice dispenser is too small to hold more ice and the ice tray only produces a small amount of ice each time.
13. Individual lanes of purchasing in retail where some move faster than others.
    Why: The store has multiple lines instead of a single line that feeds into whichever register is available first.
14. It only costs $0.20-$0.50 less to buy a 16 oz. bottle of coke than to buy a 2 liter bottle.
    Why: The convenience of the size of the bottle and the placement of it in the store (usually in a refrigerator near the checkout lines).
15. Grotto’s pizza (my favorite pizza place in Delaware) doesn’t do shipping out of state.
    Why: The pizza wouldn’t be up to the standard of the franchise, so they don’t want to jeopardize the image of the company.
16. When you buy a bag of chips and the chips only take up about half the bag.
    Why: The bigger bag is more appealing to the consumer, but for the price that you are paying it cannot be a full bag.
17. When you buy things online and the shipping is only free if you spend a certain amount of money.
    Why: The company needs to generate a certain amount of revenue from the purchase to cover the shipping.
18. When McDonald's ads for the Big Mac (or any other item) look very different than when you go and purchase the item.
    Why: The point of the advertisement is to get people to come into the restaurant to purchase something, and by the time you’ve realized it doesn't look as good as the ad, you’ve already purchased it.
19. The parking lot at Steinbrenner High School (my high school) is too small and causes many students to not be able to drive to school.
    Why: The amount of land that the school district bought to build the school was too small to create an adequately sized parking lot
20. There is no turn lane on Dale Mabry to turn into my neighborhood.
    Why: The neighborhood was built after the road and the road has not been upgraded since the neighborhood was built.

Reflection: I found this assignment easy for the first 10 things. Once I hit 11, I started to become stumped and had to walk away and do something else before coming back to it. There are a lot of things that bug me on a day to day basis, but it was very hard to come up with them on the spot like this. However, the reasons for why things are like this was very easy to come up with.