It isn’t easy being a privileged citizen of a developed nation. This blog is a catalog of the unending ways it’s lonely at the top. Contact the honkies in charge at info@first-world-problems.com and tell us how you’ve suffered.Tumblr (3.0; @fwps)http://first-world-problems.com/“I couldn’t get pizza delivered to my summer home the first day I was visiting because I had forgot my address.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://nataliegales.tumblr.com">nataliegales</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/23212225123http://first-world-problems.com/post/23212225123Wed, 16 May 2012 23:03:56 -0500“It cost me six bucks on a four-dollar order before I could get the barista at Starbucks to notice that I was putting money in the tip jar.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/23078751325http://first-world-problems.com/post/23078751325Mon, 14 May 2012 20:53:01 -0500“The checkout guy at Whole Foods didn’t think it was funny when I asked if they accepted foodie stamps.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/22954260860http://first-world-problems.com/post/22954260860Sun, 13 May 2012 00:32:06 -0500“I lost the cultural moment when the emotion that sitcoms were supposed to inspire in people was maudlinity. Also, I don’t think maudlinity is a word.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/22827139254http://first-world-problems.com/post/22827139254Thu, 10 May 2012 23:45:33 -0500“Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I’d wonder where the rest of my money went.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://flyinathlete.tumblr.com">flyinathlete</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/22763953840http://first-world-problems.com/post/22763953840Wed, 09 May 2012 23:12:33 -0500“The pressure to have an opinion about the Avengers movie is like a physical weight on my back.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/22572267393http://first-world-problems.com/post/22572267393Sun, 06 May 2012 23:50:31 -0500“I’m really disappointed in the quality of these Victorian clip art samples I’ve downloaded to make my ironic webcomic.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://calamityjon.tumblr.com">calamityjon</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/22502727591http://first-world-problems.com/post/22502727591Sun, 06 May 2012 01:41:15 -0500“The fact that I’m paying money for Hulu+ and I have to watch political campaign ads fills me with suicidal despair.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/22427270170http://first-world-problems.com/post/22427270170Fri, 04 May 2012 23:07:01 -0500“The rental car I got on vacation had plates from a different state than the one I was visiting, so I looked like a tourist.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://candycollector.tumblr.com">candycollector</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/22362415027http://first-world-problems.com/post/22362415027Thu, 03 May 2012 21:38:28 -0500“The jazz music playing in this cafe is drowning out the sound of me typing on my laptop. Now how are people supposed to know I’m working on my novel?”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://kuaara.tumblr.com">kuaara</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/22107898814http://first-world-problems.com/post/22107898814Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:06:16 -0500“I want to go for a walk around the neighborhood but I can’t until I find one of the six iPhones in my house that plays my walking music.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://lukielau.tumblr.com">lukielau</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/22028338513http://first-world-problems.com/post/22028338513Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:17:28 -0500“I’m a classics student, so I can get practically any book I need as a free e-book download. But I buy them in paperback versions anyway because I don’t want people to think I’m poor.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21953687529http://first-world-problems.com/post/21953687529Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:49:15 -0500“My noblesse oblige is not being properly acknowledged by the servant classes.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21895520718http://first-world-problems.com/post/21895520718Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:42:25 -0500“I live rent free in a three-bedroom house with a garden in North London with easy access to Central London, but I hate the wallpaper in my bedroom.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by <a href="http://kashon.tumblr.com">kashon</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/21824413227http://first-world-problems.com/post/21824413227Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:01:59 -0500“I learned so much about Japanese culture so I could appreciate all the references in anime that I missed the last decade or so of what happened in American culture.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21769931230http://first-world-problems.com/post/21769931230Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:30:20 -0500“Brazil was gorgeous, but the favelas really ruined the experience on my way to the resort.”<br/><br/> - <em>(submitted by trk)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/21698325915http://first-world-problems.com/post/21698325915Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:59:11 -0500“I’ve started actively rooting for the cancellation of “Game of Thrones” because there’s just too many good shows on Sunday night for me to watch.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21628300383http://first-world-problems.com/post/21628300383Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:38:11 -0500“This screenplay I wrote is so far past post-ironic that it’s actually approaching ironic again from the other direction.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21545866042http://first-world-problems.com/post/21545866042Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:12:38 -0500“I used to think it was cool to be quiet and keep to myself, but now I’m worried that my neighbors will believe that I’m a serial killer.”http://first-world-problems.com/post/21480717779http://first-world-problems.com/post/21480717779Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:05:25 -0500“I have fallen into a bathroom synchronization with a guy at work who I never usually speak to.”<br/><br/> - <em>(Submitted by <a href="http://sburko.tumblr.com">sburko</a>)</em>http://first-world-problems.com/post/21423953064http://first-world-problems.com/post/21423953064Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:08:19 -0500