Trivial causes you would devote yourself to:

[SoonerTexan]

--A reduction in the overabundance of compact car spaces in my area. It's Texas--we think "compact car" means 4 door sedan and I cannot tell you how many SUVs I have seen parked in them.

--A public awareness campaign for weather.gov

--Ridiculous fines for people who merge without signaling

[scrub-jay]

-- Ridiculous fines for people that smoke out of the cars when in traffic jams.
-- Ridiculous fines for people with loud bass in traffic jams who wake your child up from a nap.
-- Criminal persecution for people who smoke in cars carrying young children.

[v-girl]

White pantyhose on adult women.
Soda in baby bottles (I love my Latin brothers & sisters, but they are the ones who do this the most)
4 year olds with baby bottles
Athletic knee socks on guys
Socks + Sandals

[GrayMatterWife]

--Silly Bands
--Parents who ask, before accepting a playdate, if your snacks are organic
--Five-years-olds with pacifiers
--Teenage girls who wear SHORT dresses or low-cut blouses to church
--Women in their 50s who think it's OK to wear tube tops in public
--Upper-middle/wealthy class white people who obsess about whether their $20K year elementary school is significantly "diverse"--and, by what they mean by "diverse" is: has enough people of other races to alleviate whatever misconceived "guilt" they have at being white and/or rich, but not enough diversity to make them "uncomfortable." Basically: "we just LOVE [and by "love," we mean "condescend to" because we have no other frame of reference] people of other races! Of course, as long as that 'otherness' doesn't mean that those folks will have habits, customs, vocabulary, practices, beliefs, and systems that differ from ours. We want to experience diversity with people of other races who are just 'non-white' versions of us." SHUT UP, PLEASE.

[SoonerTexan]

--Upper-middle/wealthy class white people who obsess about whether their $20K year elementary school is significantly "diverse"--and, by what they mean by "diverse" is: has enough people of other races to alleviate whatever misconceived "guilt" they have at being white and/or rich, but not enough diversity to make them "uncomfortable." Basically: "we just LOVE [and by "love," we mean "condescend to" because we have no other frame of reference] people of other races! Of course, as long as that 'otherness' doesn't mean that those folks will have habits, customs, vocabulary, practices, beliefs, and systems that differ from ours. We want to experience diversity with people of other races who are just 'non-white' versions of us." SHUT UP, PLEASE.

You should lurk on the Dallas City Data forum--it would entertain you.

Another for me:

--Tornado safety & general info
Tornadoes do hit cities and are not stopped by lakes, rivers, mountains, trees, downtown areas, Indian Burial grounds, or your personal beliefs.
Seeking shelter under an overpass is the worst thing you can do, even if those idiots in that 1991 home movie did it (people were doing this in Dallas 2 days ago)
Taking the time to open your windows so the pressure build up doesn't "explode your house" is a waste of time. If the pressure gets that high, the tornado is on top of you and will do a good job of poking holes on its own.
An increase in deadly tornadoes in one year is not a sure sign of global warming. It just means more have hit populated areas.
The fact that a tornado has not or has hit a certain area in the past is not a good indicator of what will happen in the future.
EF stands for "Enhanced Fujita Scale" (not Extreme Force) and you cannot tell the rating of a tornado until a damage survey has been done, usually a few days after the actual storm.

[Chrisada]

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--Upper-middle/wealthy class white people who obsess about whether their $20K year elementary school is significantly "diverse"--and, by what they mean by "diverse" is: has enough people of other races to alleviate whatever misconceived "guilt" they have at being white and/or rich, but not enough diversity to make them "uncomfortable." Basically: "we just LOVE [and by "love," we mean "condescend to" because we have no other frame of reference] people of other races! Of course, as long as that 'otherness' doesn't mean that those folks will have habits, customs, vocabulary, practices, beliefs, and systems that differ from ours. We want to experience diversity with people of other races who are just 'non-white' versions of us." SHUT UP, PLEASE.

Haha! I had to explain to my husband a few days ago that we are the kind of "diversity" that people like around here. In that we are highly educated, have Anglo Saxon names, are clearly multi-racial, but consider ourselves black, and do not make them uncomfortable until of course the convo turns to "I need a tan so bad, I'm soooo white and palel" and I stand there in silence.

[Thirteen]

-The production/consumerism of Ed Hardy clothing. (Really?)
-Affordability of solar panels/wind turbines/gray water treatment systems for all people.
-Sex education (all forms) in schools, paired with follow-up parent panels to further open discussion. It is tragic to me that I know adults who still aren't aware of: their own anatomy/ovulation and menses signs/STI rates of infection.
-The trend of talking down to and direct disrespect by teen children to their parents. How is this okay?

- Long live the Oxford comma!
- Down with suit skirts that fall above the knee!
- Public awareness campaign for the phrase R.S.V.P.

[L.Jane]

- Public awareness campaign for the phrase R.S.V.P.

This!!

[oceanchild]

--Placing commas and periods outside of quotation marks where appropriate (ie, when they are not part of what is being quoted).
--Increased availability of size 10.5 womens' shoes.

[moonlight]

Now that I live in a college town again (first time since I was a undergrad) I'm just shocked at how lazy undergrads act. I've never seen a group of such lazy, helpless, underachieving people in my whole life! What can we do about banishing them to Mars or some such place?

[diggitydot]

Phonics. Because the word is "ask", not "ax".

[alison]

Yiiiiiiikes! I'm pretty sure I owe a ton of $ for breaking these rules.

My daughter will be drinking out of a baby bottle forever, I have a feeling. We get told off by other moms at the playground all the time. If you only knew. Plllleeeeease don't be hard on us.

[Pollyanna]

Yiiiiiiikes! I'm pretty sure I owe a ton of $ for breaking these rules.

My daughter will be drinking out of a baby bottle forever, I have a feeling. We get told off by other moms at the playground all the time. If you only knew. Plllleeeeease don't be hard on us.

Those other moms need to mind their own business. Which is a cause I could support, getting other parents to mind their own business

[alison]

That's awesome, Tara!
When can I sign the petition?