fifteen.

Monday, July 7, 2008

on wanting convenience.

i want things fast. i want things with no hassle. i don't want to speak. so, i shop online. i e-mail instead of send letters. i text instead of call. so when i want stamps with no social interaction, i go to the post office and buy stamps out of machine.

so i ventured out today to the local post office to buy stamps, and alas, the post office stamp machine was no longer vending booklets, indefinitely and perhaps forever. wtf. now, this completely negates the existence i want to have. who really wants to stand in line, fifteen deep with people who feel it necessary to talk to me because it is the "friendly, small-town thing to do"? you know what it really is? hell. i equate my personal experiences with these open gestures of "friendliness" to bloodletting.

in the words of salinger, why is this town so archaic and "assbackwards"?
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