Saturday, 16 February 2008

• The Little Things

  In lieu of making a third addendum to the previous post, I'll go ahead and make the second post of this day.
  
  So, I leave Houston around noon to come back to Austin.  I spend the three or so hour drive reflecting on my life and mistakes, wallowing in self-pity, being depressed, singing along to Ween at the top of my lungs, bathing in loneliness... you know, the usual. 
  
  I make it home and I figure I'll go down to Best Buy and buy the "Flight of the Conchords" DVD since I enjoyed it so much at Joey's.  That will cheer me up.
  
  So I go into Best Buy, and they have a section devoted to HBO tv shows, which Conchords is.  And they have them all, as well as every other DVD ever created in the history of mankind. But, of course, they don't have Flight of the Conchords. 
  
  I leave and decide to make my way to the nearest bridge or suicide booth.  But on the way I see a Target, and realize I haven't eaten all day and am due for a pre-after-life snack.  And I figure there is a very off chance that they might actually have the DVD. 
  
  So I go in, snag some beef jerky, and head to what I'm sure will be certain disappointment in the DVD section.  I see their selection is quite limited, other than the abundance of Power Rangers DVDs that they have.  So I'm looking around some rack of "TV on DVD" when I see it.
  
  I let out a profane exclamation of surprise and delight.  They have one freaking copy of Flight of the Conchords left.  A miracle. Almost literally.  Hell, I hate literallies but I'll slap a literally on it.  It was literally a miracle. 
  
  Suddenly, I have a new lease on life.  I immediately turned my frown upside down.  Honestly, this was a big deal to me.
  
  I then headed down to Academy and bought the "Perfect Pushup" contraption Big Phil told me about last night.  I figure, I might as well splurge on some stuff.  I did get a free $1650 from a scholarship application I sent in on a whim.  Plus, I'll be making dozens of dollars an hour in a few months, so what's wrong with buying some fitness equipment now and then.
  
  So, I'm leaving Academy, quite pleased, and I figured I should repay the world for my good fortune.  So I bought some girl scout cookies they were selling outside (proof shown below).
  
  
  
  They were all out of the Girl Scout thin mints I've heard so much about, but who cares.  I didn't buy them to eat them anyway.  I just wanted to earn the karma.
  
  Maybe I'll give them to some homeless person.  Double the karma.
  
  So, there's a moral to the story in all this somewhere.  You'll have to figure it out yourself though.  I won't just come out and tell it.  I'm not Aesop. 
  
  I just wonder what happens to the version of me living in the parallel universe where Target was all out of Flight of the Conchords DVDs.  I don't even want to imagine the pain.

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