First World problems

I was speaking with my daughter this morning and our conversation went south. We began by talking about vitamin info I learned at my Wellness class yesterday. I told her she needed to supplement her amino acids as she is a vegan and not eating meat or dairy. "Oh mom, I'm fine" was her reply. "I am only 25 and not cataloging my vitamin intake as you are". "Just trying to share what I learned" I replied. So Tom pipes in "Eat fish!" This prompts Sam to go on a tirade concerning pollutants in the water, mercury levels in fish, etc... Tom says "Well it's not like eating paints chips off the wall". Then he proceeds to bash media and medical science by saying it wasn't like he and his sibling spent the day gnawing on the window ledge growing up. "I'm healthy. Don't see what the problem is". Now I am getting a little frustrated. "Just because you didn't grow up poor with paint peeling of the walls, doesn't mean there aren't hungry children out there who are not eating paint chips". Both Tom and Sam are now laughing. "Fine", I say. "This is why I am going into the field I am studying because of you all you paint chip haters in the world." Great. Now they are laughing heartily. Then Sam shares one of her pet peeves with me. "Mom, I hate when they say real Americans in the media. What, are there some Americans that aren't really American and are there places in the United States where some Americans are more American than others? Wow, what a great pet peeve. So I share my number one pet peeve "ABC gum" (already been chewed) and I share how right after I bought my new car, I stepped in ABC gum and drug it right into the car, dirtying the new floor mats. Laughing, Sam says "Geeze mom, sounds like a first world problem to me". Sigh...... I refresh me coffee, obviously my brain has been overexercised and taxed..... So now I have a question for all my readers: What are your First World Problems? Andi Out.