Assignment 2A (Bug list)

1.     Many people with out-of-state tags drive 5 under the speed limit and hesitate to go through ‘small gaps in traffic’ that I go through on a daily basis. 

·     They learned to drive in an area much different than I did, where it is likely rude to drive the way that I do. 

2.     People pull up to a red light in the far right lane when I need to turn right, but they are continuing straight and block the lane so that I cannot get by and turn until the light changes and they drive.

·     They are likely turning right just a short distance up the road and did not want to have to cut across all of the lanes of traffic. 

3.     When I am turning left onto 34^thStreet from Hull Road, people in front of me tend to stack up in the straight/right turn lane and block just enough of the road so that I cannot get by and into the left turn lane without jumping the median with my driver side tires.

·     As they pull up to the light they likely are not planning on stopping as soon as they do, do not want to block the bikes on their other side from getting by or simply do not realize that the left turn lane gets a green light first. 

4.     When I am working a closing shift at work, people come in 10 minutes before I am supposed to leave and ask me to perform a task that will get three different sets of dishes dirty and take at least 5 minutes to do before I clean those dishes.

·     These people likely just got off of work and cannot shop at any other time, or assume that we are scheduled to stay late to make time for late shoppers such as them. 

5.     When I am driving on an interstate, there are people in all three lanes that are doing the same speed (especially anything below ~75 mph) side by side.

·     Traffic ahead of them may be slowing down or they may not understand that the left lane is specifically supposed to be reserved for passing other people. 

6.     When I am doing 5 mph over the speed limit, a person pulls up and begins to ride my bumper in the middle of town.

·     Maybe the person does not realize what the speed limit is, is having some sort of emergency or thought that I was going faster as they got closer to me. 

7.     Many people struggle to park in the center of a parking spot, or park in a corner spot but instead of parking closest to the corner to give the next person extra room, they park right on the line between them and the next car, especially on campus.

·     Maybe these people are in a rush and did not have time to readjust the way that they parked or they would have risked being late to an exam or a class. 

8.     People spread out across the entire sidewalk when they are walking in a group but refuse to move for you when you are walking in the opposite direction as them, or allow you to pass by if you are walking at a faster pace than them.

·     Maybe these people do not notice that you are walking by, or have had the same thing happen to them so many times that they believe that is the proper way to use sidewalks at UF. 

9.     People that are not from Florida immediately assume that you have a pet alligator as soon as they hear that you are from Florida.

·     With the Everglades and other swampy areas that make up the state, to people who have never been here the expectation may be that alligators inhabit all water bodies.

10.It is assumed that if you are from Florida, you must be overly tan and spend every weekend at the beach.

·     The state is a peninsula and is a very popular tourist location for spending time at the beach. 

11.When people hear that you are from near Orlando, they ask if you go to Disney all the time. 

·     For many people, the idea of Disney is something that they would want to go to all the time if they lived near it, so they must assume that the same feeling exists for those that do live near it. 

12.When someone hears that I go to UF, the most common first question is if I want to become a doctor or a lawyer or ‘something else’. 

·     UF has become a very prestigious school, ranking in the top ten in public universities this past year, so many people assume that if you go there you must want to do one of the things that they consider to be the hardest. 

13.My family asks me what I want to do after college every time that I see them. 

·     For my entire family, college at a major university is something that they did not experience, so they all hold high expectations for my future career and for me. 

14.When I am told that I ‘must buy a textbook for a course’ and never use that $200 book one time. 

·     For many courses, the textbook is a very good supplemental material that can help you excel in it. By making it known that you must have the book from the start, the professor ensures that most of their students will get it and therefore learn the material better. 

15.Readings are assigned to be done at home in class, but are then basically read entirely during class as well. 

·     By assigning the reading to be done at home and giving a quiz on it, the professor knows that we will all have some idea on the topic before he begins to explain it in further detail. 

16.People ding the door of your car in parking spots and do not leave a note of any sort, or offer to fix it for you. 

·     Many people are likely scared whenever they hit someone’s car; they also may not know that they hit it at all or may not see the scratch/dent or be unable to tell if they did it or if it was already there. 

17.People assume that those who raise animals for food, such as cattle, mistreat their animals. 

·     For people without a background in the area, it may make sense for those raising the animals to not care about the livelihood of their animals; also, ads from people such as PETA are the only education they may receive.

18.  People take credit for work, however minor it may be, that someone else did as their own. 

·     In these people’s mind, they may honestly believe that some little part that they played in the act was the only reason that it was able to be carried out. 

19.  Someone hears that your major has to do with agriculture and they assume that you want to have a corn farm when you grow up. 

·     Since I began agriculture education in middle school, this stereotype has been something I have heard a lot. Many people do not understand the many different areas of agriculture and the variety of agricultural industries and goods that a state like Florida has.

20.  People assume that everything will be given to or done for them. 

·     Everyone is raised and brought up in a different environment. For me, that environment taught me to work for anything that I want or need. This is not always the case. 

Reflection

After I got part of the way done with my list and began to reread my 'bugs', I realized that I probably sound like someone who has road rage all the time! Once I got about halfway through the list, however, I began to feel myself moving more away from some of the more obvious, broad things and beginning to dig a little bit deeper into the smaller things that bug me that someone may not be able to see right away. At the very end, I had to dig deeper still and find things that have to do with my background and upbringing, and things that I would usually only share with those that are very close to me aloud. With that in mind, the beginning of this list was VERY easy for me. Thinking of the first several things was simple, as there are so many things that you think are worth writing. However, as I got deeper into the list, it became harder to think of individual things to use that were specific enough.