Grmph...

This, dear friends, is an angry post because something posted got me angry!
I´m just coming from the post office. Had a note in the mailbox that a parcel is waiting for me there. Turns out that my folks kept the Nikolaus tradition alive and sent a nice package containing some German chocolate and (since I´m a big boy now) a bottle of vodka. Some of you might wonder if sending vodka to Finland ain´t like bringing coals to Newcastle since a pretty popular prejudice has it that the Finns drink vodka all the time anyway. First of all that ain´t true, second and more important for me: alcohol is so damn expensive here that it is cheaper to have a bottle of decent liquor shipped from Germany than buying it in a local shop. Sad but true.

So I was happily coping with the christmas commotion at the post office, waiting for my turn, only to receive a wet mess in a transparent plastic bag. That poor old lady behind the counter tried to save the situation by saying: "Well, this is a pity but the packaging is inappropriate." She absolutely failed to save anything because the package even said Flasche. My folks are hypercareful with these things and chose a packaging especially designed for the safe shipping of bottles. Then they stuffed the whole thing with soft material TO AVOID what eventually happened. At home I still opened the box to see if I can rescue at least the chocolate. It was buried in the debris of broken glass from big pieces to microscopic particles. I figured I rather leave eating glass to trained professionals and don´t perforate my gullet. Four pieces of chocolate were in a plastic wrapping, so that´s the bottom line. Everything else went to the trash. Today I´m angry and there´s no one to blame. Grmph...

SONGS FOR TODAY:

Jay Reatard - Night of broken glass
Circle Jerks - World up my ass
Descendents - Everything sucks