Individually packaged tea bags are the worst:
All I want to do is make myself an afternoon cup of tea, but when I open the tea box, I find not teabags but small containers with tea bags in them. An infuriating extra step towards my cup of tea that is pointless. I especially despise when cloth tea bags are individually packaged, because if your “high-quality” tea bag cannot stand to be in the same container as other tea bags, why, for the love of all that is holy, made of cloth? Make better tea bags or have the confidence to let them be loose in the box. All that extra waste for nothing, have shame.
Paperbacks are better than hardcovers:
Hardcovers are heavier and stiff, so they should not be revered as the original copy. It is despicable to have to wait about a year to get the superior copy, the paperback. Paperbacks fit better into bags and lead to a better reading experience, not to mention the texture that paperbacks can. In addition paperbacks do not ever have the frustrating dust jacket that always gets bent and eventually lost. Hardcovers are for shelves and paperbacks are actually for reading.
Grade names should be reserved for college:
It is incredibly confusing to rise through the ranks of freshman, sophomore, junior and finally senior, only to become… a freshman again. Why do we label the grades so confusingly? Why do we have two sets of the same names? To add to the confusion, in some places the high school grades are labeled as ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth. There are two sets of names for the high school grades, and two sets of the freshman through senior labels. We need to clean this up. Keep high school numerical and leave the big labels to colleges and universities.