This is the kind of thing that makes you want to break shit
So, for various reasons, today was the first day in about a week that I had any money to my name. At all. So I went out into the wide world to see what trouble I could cause, and see if I could stock up on a few provisions.
Well, the provisions went okay. Everything else didn't. FIrst, I had Bus Hell: I swear to God, the only two passengers hacking their lungs up sat right next to ME out of the whole damn bus to choose from: one in front, and another who actually stood OVER me and coughed her stupid stinking germs all over me. The first bus was of course late and I had to run like hell for the connecting one as it passed right in front of me...only to be told I couldn't ride FOUR BLOCKS to where I was headed because I didn't have my new bus pass yet. WHICH I WAS TAKING THE BUS IN ORDER TO PICK UP. The bus drove away while I limped along waiting for my lungs to explode.
Then I went to an appointment, which I missed because I got the time wrong. Oh well, more time to run errands. I finally broke down and applied for a Best Buy credit card...and was accepted! Glory be. Then I find out that the netbook I really want (I need a 'just in case' computer as a backup if my main one ever breaks down) was on sale FOUR DAYS AGO for $130 dollars less.
One hundred. And thirty. DOLLARS. Less.
*insert sounds of homicidal rage/slow burn here*
Then on the way home I stopped in the local dvd shop and found out that the copy of The Water Babies that I saw and coveted last week when I was broke got sold. Dear whoever bought it: you clueless selfish asswipe, that was MY dvd. Shitstain. And of course that title's out of print now.
(Side note: OMG Bernard Cribbins was in that movie! I saw his name when I looked it up online to see if it was gettable anywhere and wracked my brain trying to remember who he played...and then I did! He was Grimes's sidekick, both in the live-action and cartoon segments. I remember him threatening to break Toby's neck "quick as you like!", and calling the Grimes shark "sir" and wailing "ooh, I don't like it, I don't like it!!!" as the electric eels swarmed their castle.
You know how many years it's been since I saw that movie? Over twenty, at least. And I identified an actor from memory. Christ on toast, the useless crap my brain hangs onto...) :P
(EDIT: Oooh, someone put it up on YouTube! And guess who else is in it: Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs. :D Having a bit more trouble recalling who they played, though...Pertwee must have been an otter or something; he's got a pretty distinctive voice.)
You ever get the feeling that some days the entire universe is conspiring to prevent you from getting ANYTHING you want, just to point and laugh at you out sadistic spite?
Q