cigarettes, puppies and handgrenades

you know you've had a rough day when you go to the service counter at the grocery store to buy a lighter and end up getting the cheapest pack of light cigarettes they sell. i know they were the cheapest, because instead of asking for a certain brand (as a general non-smoker i really don't have any brand dedication) i just asked 'what's the cheapest light cigarettes you have?' the check-out girl was trying to tell me that although they were cheap, the whatever level that determines how light or not light was not that low.

um, these cigarettes are clearly an impulse purchase, so i don't really care about just how 'light' they are.

guess it's a good thing safeway doesn't sell puppies or hand grenades because i'm pretty sure those are things i also don't need, but would potentially buy on impulse from time to time, like cigarettes. [ok, sure i love animals and would like to have a pet, right, but per the hand grenades -- sometimes drivers royally piss me off when they don't yield to me in a pedestrian crosswalk, and i always wish that i had an egg or two in my pocket to throw at the car, but they're so fragile and messy, you know? at least with a hand grenade you have to pull the pin before anything happens.]

sigh.