School buses that stop every block
Why on Earth do scoolbuses sometimes stop on successive blocks of the same street to pick up kids? If the kid is physically capable of walking to the end of their block to catch the bus, surely they can walk ONE MORE BLOCK to a consolidated bus stop so that the bus only stops once on that street instead of three or four times! The extra walking will probably do the kids good. And reducing the number of stops that the bus makes will reduce the disruption to the normal flow of traffic.

Paper towels in public restrooms
It irks me every time I go into a public restroom and see people drying their hands with two or three times as much paper towels as they need. The waste basket is FULL of barely-wet paper towels. Do these people not know anything about conservation or how much energy is used to produce each square or towel? I always use the minimum required to dry my hands... resulting in a discarded paper towel that is a sopping wad.

High school
High school is a joke. It is amazing that the number of idiots and losers that drop out of school keeps rising given the quality, cost (free), and difficulty of education in this country. However, I guess we should be thankful that there are custodians, nannies, sales clerks, and burger flippers in the world. Unfortunately, those dropouts also make up the population that's on welfare and has children when they're teenagers.

Stupid people on airplanes
It is amazing how many people don't understand "one carry-on and one personal item." On our recent flights we saw numerous people that took "personal item" to mean an additional carry-on. They had two HUGE carry-on bags. A "personal item" is supposed to be a small item like a purse or small bag that can either be held in the lap or stuffed under your seat, not in the overhead bins. Then there are those stupid people that put their HUGE bags in the overhead bin sideways, despite the placards ON THE BINS and the announcements by the flight attendants to put bags in the bins wheels first, so that you can fit more bags in side-by-side. There was one particular idiot that put his two big carry-ons sideways and took up two thirds of a bin that should have fit 5 or 6 bags.

Too many pressed penny choices
It can be very frustrating for a pressed penny collector when you go somewhere that has not only a machine with 4 choices of design, but more than one multi-choice machine. How is one to pick between all the choices?! And not only does it get expensive to get ALL the designs, you only need ONE for your collection to show you've been there.

"Baby on Board" sign
Who made the determination that babies were more precious than everyone else? Do you see any "toddler on board" or "teenager..." or "adult..."? Are we supposed to translate a "baby on board" sign to mean "go a head and hit anyone else, but don't hit this car" or "Baby's are the most precious cargo"? Are people like new cars and a person's value depreciates as soon as they are no longer a baby? Ridiculous. People that have those signs are just full of themselves and think that THEIR baby is better than EVERY other person in the world.

Mini-Vans and SUVs
Mini-vans suck.  First of all, they are usually driven by a cell-phone chatting soccer mom, who is all by herself in the monster vehicle.  Secondly, mini-vans are usually filled with only a driver and 2 kids.  I'm not sure, but I thought that sedans held 5 persons, and am not sure why Americans have this mentality that they "need" a bigger car.  A person who has no reason to haul more than 4 people shouldn't drive a mini-van.

Moreover, SUVs are silly.  First of all, they suck up gas like there's no tomorrow and usually are only driven on flat, paved streets, fully defeating the premise of it being a "sports utility vehicle."  Secondly, what is up with luxury SUVs?  Do we even need to expand on that further?  Yuppies that drive SUVs are so preoccupied with the image and status it brings that they completely ignore the impracticality and excessiveness of it.

George Bush
Don't even get us started.

People that take kids to movies
So, today we went to a movie and this snotty little brat had to take a wiz right as the movie started.  I mean, not during the previews or the numerous commercials, but right as I actually wanted to see something on the screen (yes, I did not want to see the Want-a-Fanta commercial).  Kids that can't hold their bladders and keep their mouth's shut shouldn't be allowed in. 

Christmas
We don't get this gift exchange between family members that never see or speak to one another.  If you only contact each other a few times in the year, what is the point in exchanging $20 presents?  Wouldn't it be better to just save your $20 since you probably won't like the coasters or other crap the person gives you? 

Cheap gifts
What's the point of buying someone an obvious sale item (super mark down) just to uphold the tradition of giving a gift?  Shouldn't there be some thought behind presents? 

Google.com
Google is just wonderful! Not only is it one of the few remaining free search engines, it is also one of the best. Just recently we did a search for "Washington resort spa" for someplace to go for a weekend and the FIRST match was The Bonneville Hot Springs Resort and Spa. We ended up going there and had a great time. Without Google and the internet we probably would never have found out about this little gem in middle-of-nowhere North Bonneville, WA.

Cruises
Our recent cruise with Royal Caribbean to the Mexican Riviera was very enjoyable. The food was very good (and VERY plentiful). The service was first-rate. Plenty of places to relax, and lots of activities for when you get bored of relaxing. We would recommend everyone go on a cruise at least once to see if they like it.

HDTV
High Definition Television rocks! Watching normal TV on an HD television is nothing special, but watching movies in HD is amazing (at least on a big-screen TV it is). The one place where it makes a HUGE difference is watching sports. I (Edgars) don't like watching most sports on TV, but even football is more interesting in HD. There is so much more detail to look at ... so much that you can watch all kinds of stuff going on in the stadium without really paying attention to the game.

Being over 21
The best part of being over 21 is going to busy restaurants where there are tables in the bar area, and instead of waiting for a normal table, you immediately find an empty table in the bar. And most restaurants serve the same food in the bar as in the restaurant proper.

Coupons
Coupons are awesome:  There's a coupon for everything. And with the internet, coupons are now even easier to find.

NetFlix.com
Netflix is great. You can watch as many movies as you want each month and keep them for as long as you need them. As long as you watch like 4 or 5 a month, the monthly fee comes out less than if you rented them from Blockbuster. AND the selection is bigger than your average video store and we have never run into the online equivalent of "all copies rented."