Some people should just drown themselves

So I'm standing in line at the post office so I can purchase some 2-cent stamps, since our esteemed US Postal Service has raised our rates again. There is this woman in front of me who also wished to purchase some two cent stamps. She gets to the teller and asks for ten 2-cent stamps, for a grand total of 20 cents. The teller tells the lady that there are no 2-cent stamps anywhere in the county. This causes our lady (who must be a military officer's wife, based on the 'tude she then displayed. Many of these chicks go around thinking the universe revolves around them and that everybody should bow to their wishes. I've lived around the military all my life, and military officer wives are the worst.) to take a deep breath and grouse about how incompetent the Postal Service is, and how this is just more evidence about how crummy the government is, blah, blah, blah...The teller says that she can purchase 10 3-cent stamps, instead. Let's do the math here: Granted, this is a 50% increase in cost, but that cost would result in an outlandish expenditure of 30 cents! What does our self-important wench do? She says that she is not going to purchase 3-cent stamps, because she doesn't need 3-cent stamps, and that she will return to the post office next week to purchase some 2-cent stamps, and she storms out. I watched her climb into a Chevy Suburban and nearly crash into another vehicle as she tried to maneuver her too-big-for-her truck out of her parking space while grousing to somebody through the cellular stuck to her ear. Let's do the math here: It would have cost her 10 more cents than what she planned to spend if she had bought the stamps. She used more than 10 cents in gasoline just to start her truck and get out of the parking lot! And she is going to come back next week! (More gas!!!). One could argue that she didn't buy the 3-cent stamps out of principle, but I would argue that she was just a dumbass. I imagine she is one of those people who will burn an extra half-gallon of gas driving around to find gasoline that is a penny cheaper.

I purchased 10 3-cent stamps :-)