I was pretty excited to order a couple of State Bicycle 6061 Black Label All-Road bicycles from a LBS in April. At the time, they said it would be the end of June for delivery. That seemed OK to me. I’ve got plenty of other bikes and that leaves plenty of time for summer riding. Then the date slipped to July…then to late August. It’s a First World sort of problem, but still annoying.

A more annoying situation was when our hot water heater gave up the ghost in May. It took quite a while to find someone who could install one for a reasonable price and we couldn’t find another tankless model that would work for us at any price within a reasonable timeframe. It wasn’t very fun to not have hot water for over a week. Also a First World problem, but much more annoying that waiting (and waiting and waiting) for a bicycle.