For a number of reasons, today kinda sucks. It could be worse (it could be SO much worse), but it’s not what I wish for when I look forward to my weekends. I’m working, John’s working, we’ve been camped out at the dining room table for most of the day, sitting across from each other with our heads buried in our laptops, and that’s not really the part that kinda sucks. Mostly, it’s exhaustion. Roxy had another seizure last night, around 11pm, and this time, neither of us could go back to sleep until after 1am. Out the window went our plans (my plan, anyway – not sure if that was John’s plan, too) to run this morning. Instead, we slept until nearly ten. Not good sleep. Woke up feeling like we hadn’t slept at all, and since we have no milk in the house, I went to Dunkin Donuts to pick up breakfast. (Yes, no milk = bagels. And Starbucks. It does not equal go to the store and buy milk since you have to leave the house either way, dumbass.) The Dunkin Donuts in our tiny town is the WORST Dunkin Donuts. This morning was it – I’m never going to that one again. This time, before ten am on a Saturday, they were out of plain bagels, out of plain cream cheese, and they didn’t give me the hash browns I paid for, even though they repeated the order back to me three times AND they’re on the receipt. They’ve screwed up our order lots of times, they make terrible coffee, and they even manage to screw up iced chai. John tells me (and I know this – I’ve been to others) that this Dunkin Donuts is not representative of the whole company, but still. This one? Dead to me. That, on top of no sleep, on top of the half-hour wait at Starbucks (It may have only been 10 minutes, but it felt longer. At least they got my order right.), all BEFORE breakfast, with no run to clear my head or make me feel virtuous for exercising when I’m eating a not-healthy breakfast, followed by WORKING makes today not the greatest Saturday.
Also, my head hurts.
Also also, I might feel better if I’d showered this morning. I swear, that’s happening soon.
Also also also, I didn’t like the book I just finished (finally), The Emperor’s Children, so that may have been contributing to this mood. I couldn’t even escape into my book!
Dad
Well, I feel better!
John
I think I should point out to all of your readers that your rant against Dunkin’ Donuts actually does a pretty good job of capturing how annoyed you were when you got home yesterday. I wish I had been able to video record your reaction to discovering that you had no hash browns.
momma betty
That’s the absolute limit!
The Wombat
I thought you were going to say you had donuts for breakfast! I don’t think bagels qualify as unhealthy. 😉
The Wombat
Also? Poor Roxy! Hope she feels all better.
IBCRandy
Wait, you went to Dunkin’ Donuts and they were out of bagels? I seem to recall a joke you told me once that starts that way. Did the DD employee ask you to spell words? “Cat” as in “Catastrophic”, etc?
Andy
Well, we’ve all had a Saturday like that, eh? Great job of describing it. One small suggestion re the coffee: McDonald’s serves a lot of crap, but their coffee has hugely improved to the point I prefer it to Starbucks (too strong). Also, try their low fat cranberry orange muffin (endorsed by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, no less!!)
Hope this weekend will be a great one for ya!
ErlindaDolphin
Great post! I enjoy reading your article. It’s kinda weird actually. 🙂