1. Pittsburgh potholes
(Related: On the way to see Black Panther Friday night, I hit a pothole and got a flat. Fortunately, I was a quarter mile away from a gas station, so I was able to drive there and park my car. From there I caught an Uber to the theater, watched the 2-hour-and-15-minute-long film, got a ride back to the car after the movie (at 1 a.m.) and waited for the tow truck to get there at 2. Nothing, not even racist-ass “MAGA” potholes, was going to stop me from seeing Black Panther.)
2. Cold weather
3. Flaccid potato salad
4. Lines
5. Being put on hold during a call to customer care
6. Roaches
7. That thing that happens when the drawstring of your sweatpants disappears on one side and you need a bobby pin or something to fish it back out
8. When the hot water gives out while you’re taking a shower, and you’re already wet and soapy, so it’s too late for you to get out and wait for the heat to come back
9. When you go through the drive-thru at fast-food places before closing and they inform you that they’ve stopped making the thing that they make because they’ve turned off the ovens and fryers
10. My autocorrect, which for some reason has started to change “how’s” to “hoes”
11. The tiny drop of pee that always seems to find its way onto my new Tims within a week of my buying them
12. Brain freeze headaches
13. My abs
14. Traffic
15. Any group number after 5 when I’m waiting to board an American Airlines flight
16. Couscous
17. Acne
18. Jogging
19. Plantar fasciitis
20. Black ice
21. Sweater vests
22. Herpes
23. Turkey bacon
24. The name “Susan”
25. Metabolism
26. Gravity (for keeping niggas down)
27. Boiled hot dogs
28. When you put all of the guards and toilet paper on public toilets before sitting on them, only for everything to fall off or blow away right when you’re about to sit
29. Restaurants that give you blue cheese instead of ranch with your wings and then act like it’s no big deal, as if there is no difference between the two
30. White people