Daily hassles (minor irritations).

During daily interaction with your environment (which means: living your life) people can run into all sorts of situations that can give stress.

You lost your keys, you have social obligations you don't want to go to. You experience noise from your environment. You have not slept well. All items that are not so large to call them life event, but definitely cause stress. The difference between daily hassles and life events is the period of stress; often being disturbed during studying for instance, can give the same amount of stress and anger like any item from the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, but will last much shorter. Life events require larger psychological adaptation than daily hassles, because you have to adapt to a great change in your life. A daily hassle is not a change at all.

Other examples of daily hassles are: to feel alone, fear of rejection, worry about the meaning of life, not enough money for basic maintenance or clothing, worry about owing money, too little time for all obligations, not having slept enough, dissatisfaction with work, not liking your colleagues, traffic, problems with your child, side effects of medication.