Wants and needs … it seems that one day soon they will be one and the same .
I’m a little grumpy right now as most men are when their wants and needs go unfulfilled . And like most men my wants are greater than my needs meaning the only thing as bad as having no money is finding nothing to buy .
Lately many of the products we usually purchase on our weekly foray to the shops are unavailable…. for weeks at a time.
” It’s the pandemic ” explains the employees at the store…. “we can’t get it delivered”
Today my “wants” were to grill a slab of meat I’d thawed . My “need” was some charcoal lighter fluid and so I pulled into the local MalWart store to discover it was now unavailable . The entire garden center where it is normally found was taken over by Christmas decorations and fake Christmas trees .
It’s September 26 and ninety days from Christmas and they haven’t even stocked out all the Halloween candy yet, or even started to sell that horrible Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin Beer . I don’t really need a fake Christmas tree right now. It’s 86 degrees and I just need to grill a frigging steak .
Malwart is starting to irritate me almost as much as the asshole down the street who hasn’t taken his Christmas lights down in two years.
