Ranting. again.

Anyone remember Muttley?  Muttley was the dog of Dick Dastardly on the Saturday morning cartoons.

This is what always happened; Dick Dastardly made a mess of things and then yelled at Muttley to clean it up. Then Muttley would find a way of getting back at ole Dick (can we all say Passive Aggressive?) and then he would do the Muttley wheezey laugh.

But . . . way back when Dick Dastardly was yelling at Muttley, that is when we would hear Muttley cursing and swearing under his breath "Ras-a-frass #$$%$%^%%^^"  Remember?  THAT is exactly what I was doing today!  The Muttley Cuss-a-thon!  Yeah!

And now that I have used my daily allotment of !!!!, I will get on with my rant.  The mood has been set. The tone is now right. Everyone understands what kind of response I had to things that happened today.

First, I went to Walgreen's.  I love me some Walgreen's!  They are one of my all time favorite stores.  As a matter of fact I went in once and bitched at the manager because they have signs all over their parking lot saying 30 minute parking or they will tow your car off.  Now, how on God's green Earth can anyone get in and out of Walgreen's in less than 30 minutes?  Never gonna happen.  They have the cutest little cart/buggies to push around, don't they?  Not like those weird ass things they have as Kohl's.  Those things are just weird as hell.  So, anyhoo, by the time I get my cart and strap in my purse and start heading up and down each aisle and then check to see what's on sale and what's on clearance, and then finally go get what I came in for, well, you KNOW 30 minutes have already elapsed right?  So, I was in Walgreen's today and wanted to complain about how they have changed the Walgreen's brand of Ibuprofen.  So I asked the checker guy who I would complain to about product changes?  He has no clue.  But here is the deal:  Every single product that Walgreen's makes their own generic version of has a cute little name.

For example:

Sudafed = Wal-fed

Claritin = Wal-itin

Ibuprofen = Wal-profen

I love this and I think it is one of the funniest things ever!  The last batch of Wal-profen I bought didn't say "Wal-profen" on the bottle it said IBUPROFEN. Then to make things worse, they changed the color from a nice sedate little Sienna red-brown to Bright fluorescent orange, like you would be wearing on the side of the road picking up trash.  wtf?  I am not too happy about fake colors in my body anyway, but fluorescent ones seem 100 times worse.  For some reason we also have a Target brand of fake Ibuprofen in the kitchen and it is also the horrific orange.  This is what I have been doing, taking the newer Walgreen's Ibuprofen and pouring them into my old Wal-profen bottle!

Needless to say, the 10 year old checker dude at Walgreen's was not at ALL interested in my story of how I hate the new changes to Wal-profen.

I left there and went to my local grocery store and headed for the men's deodorant aisle.  And why I didn't look for this when I was at Walgreen's I will never know.  But there I was at the men's deodorant aisle at the grocery store looking for Regular Old Spice Deodorant Stick.  Not the roll on, not an anti-perspirant, not a new flavor, just what I had been asked to get.  So I perused the aisle and found the Old Spice area.   Starting at the top shelf, going across, "Not that one, not that one, not that one" down a row, "not that one, not that one, not that one".  I FINALLY found the one I was looking for on the very bottom.  And then I counted every.    single.   version.   of Old Spice Deodorant they carry.  Want to take a guess at how many there were?



THIRTY-FOUR!


That's how many types of Old Spice Deodorant were available at my grocery store.  Guess who was doing the Muttley grumbling cussing thing in the men's deodorant aisle?

This is the same flipping store that carries 5 Brazillian flavors of my favorite brand of Mexican juice except for the one flavor I want.  (It's Plum Nectar, by the by. And it is delicious!)  The same store that carries 5 rows of Orange Jell-O but not one single box of Apricot Jell-O.  The same store that won't stock the only flavor of Campbell's soup that I like.

Don't ask me why I don't go shop elsewhere because in this area there is the one big local chain, and Super Target and Super Walmart.  That's it.  Unless you count Costco and Sam's.  And in my house Sam's and Walmart are verbotten!  I do hit my Super Target quite a lot because it is right around the corner, but they just don't have the selection that the grocery store does.  Don't you feel bad for me? Aren't you glad you get to shop in your own home town that probably has more stores and some competition?

All done ranting today.  Feels good just to get that off my chest.