It was the “Wednesday whines” on the BBC Radio 6 breakfast show. People email the station with things that irritate them, petty annoyances that get under the skin. It is meant to be a humorous feature (well, I hope it is, surely people don’t count those things as really mattering?). First World problems doesn’t approach capturing how trivial are some of the things which people see as grounds for on air complaints.

This morning’s whine was from a man who complained that the bin collection in his area had not …