Tag: first world problems

Allen Mendenhall: Lost luggage, found perspective

This capacity for indignation over minor inconveniences is perhaps our greatest luxury. To come from a place so organized, so systematized, so relentlessly functional that a gate change feels like chaos? That’s not a character flaw. It’s extraordinary fortune.

Phil Williams: First-world problems, third-world blessings

Every single day in America is like a Pinterest page to someone in the third world.  First world problems are really just third world blessings. 

Phil Williams: The land of ultra soft smooth tear poo paper

The poo industry is big business in the U.S. Are we spoiled?