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Getting Pantsed

Getting pantsed is a bummer. It's a bummer because it's so embarrassing! Especially because what if you're wearing really embarrassing underwear, like granny panties or ones with, I don't know, cows on them or something? Everyone is going to laugh at you! And you can't even really do anything about it, because you didn't know it was coming! All you can do is just pull your pants back up and try to pretend that the most embarrassing thing in the world did not just happen. Not a bummer: Pantsing someone.

This bummer submitted verbatim by T.S., who, despite being just 15 years old, is clearly already a bummer expert.

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a bummer. Nothing kills a good mood faster than reading something or watching something that makes you yearn for gaslit times you'll never ever see. That's the problem with getting really into a certain era, say like 1970s New York. Yeah, it's fascinating to read about, but it makes you look at your own life and go "Gee, we basically never ride horses into nightclubs while wearing only glitter." Also a bummer: Fauxstalgia (Nostaliga for something that never existed in the first place).

Roommate Steals Your Shower Time

Having your roommate jump in the shower during your usual shower time is a bummer. Living with near strangers is a tenuous situation at best, so in order to get by it's necessary that no one make any unscheduled scoundrel plays for the early bathroom slot. There's nothing worse than waking up at 7:30 only to realize that some sly fox is already in there and will stay in there until 7:50, wetting up the floor and probably using your expensive oatmeal-based exfoliating foam. It's especially a bummer because it forces you to have an interaction with another person before 11 a.m., during which, by sounding off about "unscheduled scoundrel plays," you'll come off as a total prick. 

Meetings

Meetings are a bummer. Meetings are the worst because they never accomplish anything and always run too long. Meetings should have been abolished with the invention of e-mail, but somehow in an epic battle of mediums of communication, meetings vanquished e-mail, and so now e-mail is just a way to decide when to have the next pointless meeting. Even though sometimes meetings involve free food (which is righteous), they're still a bummer because it means the food is either a bribe to get you to sit there longer or an attempt to soften the blow that everyone's getting fired. Embarrassing bummer: Team building exercises.

Unreliable Internet

Unreliable internet is a bummer. This is especially a bummer because the internet is basically never reliable, so any time you go to use it you're going to be haunted by the spectre of inexplicable internet failure. Not knowing whether the gods of technology are going to permit you to look up how to get to that one bar is an unbelievable bum out. It's even worse if you're in the middle of doing something or talking to someone online and then all of a sudden SLAM! you're back in web 1.0, which is to say no web at all. And since no one knows anything at all about the internet, the only solution is to unplug and replug things until for some reason the internet decides to allow you four more seconds of use. Also a bummer: The phrase "surfing the web." Not a bummer: Reminiscing about dial-up.

Sold Out Movie

Sold out movie is a bummer. Sold out movie is a bummer because you usually don't find out until you get to the theater, so you're already in the movie-going mood and have maybe already purchased contraband snacks and are really looking forward to the previews when all of a sudden your whole lazy afternoon gets ruined. Now you have to make the choice between seeing another movie playing at the same time, which is probably going to be Maid in Manhattan or Made of Honor or some other wedding movie with "made" in it, or waiting it out and going to the later showing of the movie you intended to see. Either way, it's really going to put a damper on the movie magic. Gigantic un-bummer: Being the only people in the theater.