Mama said there'd be days like this...

Some days, it's enough to make you want to smash your television (that is, if you are prone to rage, like me. And if your television actually belongs to you, not your roommate-- it is not a good idea to smash your roommates belongings... even if both the roommate and the offending property deserve it.)

I mean, when was the last time that you watched Carrie Bradshaw spend her Saturday popping in and out of 3 different Duane Reade's, desperately hoping that one of them would still have that life-altering Spring drug of choice, Claritin? Did she ever have to deal with surly pharmacy employees wondering why you could possibly want the box with the 50% more free (um, gnarly checkout woman, perhaps because I am going to be living off of this stuff for the next 3 months, and I do not have an unlimited income, and I will demand every single free pill that I can get. It's not like you're not gouging me already. And it's not like it's any harder for you to pull that box of the shelf instead of the other one. And finally, I would like to share with you a little saying that we from the midwest hold rather dear, and which this city could sorely stand to embrace: Because the customer is always right! And for that matter, I have every right to ask if you have the $.99 birthday cards. Do I look like I'm made of money? I'm going to wipe that sneer right off your face!) Lucky, lucky Carrie Bradshaw.

Likewise, did our intrepid friend Carrie ever, EVER, devote the remainder of her Saturday to hanging wet laundry around her 3 person, 400 sq. ft. apartment because some nitwit jammed the laundry card machine, leaving her with no way to dry the two soaking loads she had just done. Why, oh why, oh why, can't washing machines take change anymore? Did Carrie ever have to dry her clothes by hanging them off of every surface, chair and doorknob in the apartment, as well as laying them out on her bed (thereby preventing any hope of actually sitting anywhere in the apartment?) No, she did not. Lucky, lucky Carrie.