There are times when I annoy myself

There are times when I annoy my own self - probably others too, but in this case, I'm talking about no one else being around to be annoyed by me, but me. It's a tiny little thing that is a split second of A.D.D. in the grocery store, where my eyes are on the exact thing I want to buy on the shelf and I grab it - only to find that once I'm home, I've taken the wrong item off the shelf. In the instant I realize that I actually bought something that is, at best, close to what I wanted, my mind goes back to being in the store and seeing it on the shelf. For a nanosecond my mind wandered onto the next thing I was going to buy and that was all it took for my hands to grab something I didn't want. Is it the end of the world? Nope.

My latest shopping fuck up? Bathroom tissue - but it's really not my fault. There, on an end cap display, was a convenient reminder that it was indeed time for me to replenish my supply. I don't really dwell on such matters for long, I do what I gotta do and that's the end of my thought process on matters like this. That last flippin thing I thought, would be that when I got home with said supplies, that what I actually bought, was some marketing brain donor's learning impaired idea to bulk package miniature rolls of toilet paper. Shit. Fuck. Damn. How the hell was I to know this? The package looked to be the same size as what I usually buy, and for the same dollar amount. A no-brainer - all that matters is that the name brand is anything but something like "Top Value", "Good Buy" or "Dollar's Worth" - pick any name brand bathroom tissue and I'm in, done - generic brands of bathroom tissue? Suck it, you might as well try using snowflakes. A bit disappointed that what I bought was a bulk pack of mini rolls - but I'll live with it and change rolls more often, but really? Who the hell looks for and buys this kind of stuff? I guess if I were going backpacking/camping and wanted to conserve valuable pack space...but in the world of bathroom tissue, I tend to go with the theory of it being better to have and not need, than to need and not have. I'll live. I'm just a bit surprised that any company would package something like this the way they did - I'll uh, look closer next time out.

Wow - I just wrote a flippin' paragraph about bathroom tissue. Talk about blah. Then again, I've also written an entire post about junk mail - which I still find a bit annoying. I think it should basically be illegal, because I think it's basically littering in someones mailbox. Of course once that litter is in my mailbox, it's my responsibility to do something with it. I suppose this comes to mind because I had a coworker recently ask me to bring her all of my junk mail coupons. Seems she has recently started coupon-ing. What's the word I'm looking for here....oh yes, NO. Sorry, but walking this crap to the recycle bin is more than I want to do with it, and more than I should have to do with it. Put it in my car and give a ride with me into work? Nope, not gonna happen. There's enough clutter in my car on any given day, I'm not about to feed that monster. Now if you happen to be standing beside me when I open my mailbox and discover pages of crap I neither asked for, or want....it's all yours sweetheart, and you're welcome.