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- From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
- Subject: It's a consipiracy, I tell you
- Message-ID: <zrpqcpp@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 20:27:11 GMT
- Organization: Dark Satanic Mills
- Keywords: no ducks no geese no yams no lamb&rice dog food in the big bag
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- I cleaned the bathroom this morning. That's not a peeve, because now
- the bathroom's clean. What annoys me is that the only supermarket in
- town stopped selling my favorite bathroom cleaning gloop. I've checked
- around at the (heh) many discount and hardware stores in Los Alamos, and
- even in other cities. No luck. Did they stop making this stuff when
- they found out I liked it? The *only* other brand of gloop available now
- doesn't work as well, is runny (love paying for that water), costs more,
- foams excessively, won't rinse off, and smells like play perfume.
-
- They did this to me before on toilet cleaner crystals. First one brand
- then the other disappeared from their shelves. Again, why should I have
- to pay for water, an ingeniously-not shaped squeeze container to get the
- gloop *under* the rim (isn't that what a brush is for?) that will work
- until the gloop is half gone, or their mega-annoying commercials, but
- then again, what commercials aren't annoying?
-
- They ran out of kitchen matches recently (imagine, having to order more
- than usual at the beginning of woodstove season) but someone must have
- noticed the empty space next to the four varieties of cupcake papers.
- And most peevesome of all, the intercom has been commandeered by some
- dweeb at the pre-blackened fish counter who thinks he's Jay Leno at
- K-Mart. Must be the fumes.
-
- Oh fucking wonderful. The satellite dish just decided to stop working,
- and I was taping MST3K for a friend. Snow must have melted into the
- LNB circuitry and I'll have to wait for it to dry out. Maybe if I
- click my heels together three times the dryer will slip a belt again,
- the modem will have another line-noise-induced seizure, the truck will
- blow up in the driveway, and St*v* Fr*nkl*n will stop over to say hi.
-
- Jenny
-
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- "Is Bush intentionally lying to the American public or is it just that
- the Japanese economy looked worse when viewed while slumped on the floor
- in a pool of his own vomit?" - E. Gow (in Japan)
-