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The one thing I wanted to commemorate the Braves\u2019 World Series victory was a copy of the November 3rd Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which I\u2019m assuming would have the Braves\u2019 victory on the cover.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t want any hokey commemorative hats or shirts or a Dugout Mug, just a single copy of the local newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n I asked my nanny to stop somewhere and pick one up, in lieu of coming on time, which she graciously did for me. However, it was the early edition that clearly started press last night while the game was in progress because it literally was a photo of Jorge Soler and text indicating that the Braves hoped to win one more game.\u00a0 <\/span>She didn\u2019t know and neither did I, and I didn\u2019t think the AJC was sophisticated enough to even do early editions.\u00a0 <\/span>So by no fault of anyone, mission was still not accomplished yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I went out in the afternoon to a Walgreens hoping to accomplish three things: get my paper, drop off a UPS package, and pick up a prescription.\u00a0 <\/span>I accomplished none of them, and that\u2019s when the wheels began falling off my day.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This particular Walgreens is the worst on the planet.\u00a0 <\/span>It thrives solely on its optimal location, but the service and quality of the place is straight trash.\u00a0 <\/span>Prescriptions are never ready when you go there and they almost deliberately troll you to make you jump through hoops in order to procure.\u00a0 <\/span>Honestly, I\u2019m past my wits end and I need to demand my wife stop sending shit there because I\u2019m not going to go there anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n So, the prescription I went to go pick up wasn\u2019t ready.\u00a0 <\/span>Be like, 15 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>By the way, I\u2019m on the clock since #2\u2019s going to wake up soon and my nanny\u2019s going to leave.\u00a0 <\/span>Next<\/span><\/p>\n Oh, this Walgreens doesn\u2019t collaborate with UPS. Only FedEx. Next<\/span><\/p>\n Oh, this Walgreens also doesn\u2019t sell newspapers.\u00a0 <\/span>Fucking really?<\/span><\/p>\n So I go to the nearby grocery store in this 15 minute window to get a paper, and hope they have a UPS box or can accept outgoing mail.\u00a0 <\/span>Nope to UPS and all copies of the AJC are sold out. Next\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n So I go to another grocery store, and they\u2019re out too.\u00a0 <\/span>For as much as people always try and tell me print is dead, the demand for it today sure as fucking hell says it\u2019s not.\u00a0 <\/span>At least there\u2019s a nearby UPS store where I can finally drop off this fucking package I\u2019ve been unable to drop off for the last 24 hours because UPS drop boxes appear to have vanished like voter suppression. Next<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been past 15 minutes, so I swing by Walgreens and mercifully, they have my prescription.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m on my way out and I make the call to last ditch try the gas station, since my nanny picked up her paper from one this morning.\u00a0 <\/span>I go inside and I see some guy wearing full Braves gear, and the cashier tells him sold out.\u00a0 <\/span>I storm out.<\/span><\/p>\n Now it\u2019s time to get back home and relieve the nanny and put my handcuffs back on to baby duty. I will have no more opportunities to try and procure a copy of this paper today.\u00a0 <\/span>I am livid, I am dejected, I am just so drained, disappointed and hating the entire world at this moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Going back to another topic, one of my biggest beefs is when people try and tell me print is a dying medium.\u00a0 <\/span>It definitely doesn\u2019t get any respect from the working world, and it\u2019s clear retailers aren\u2019t bother supplying it, because on any other given day, copies of the AJC probably are thrown out.<\/span><\/p>\n But on days like today, when monumental things happen, there doesn\u2019t appear to be anything people want more than a fucking physical piece of print, because something physical and tangible is the best fucking way to commemorate, fucking anything.<\/span><\/p>\n Fuck everyone who thinks print is dead. Fuck all the assholes who buy up multiple copies hoping to turn a profit.\u00a0 <\/span>And as far as I\u2019m concerned, fuck the world right now because I just wanted one simple thing, and I can\u2019t find it and I don\u2019t have the time to look for it, and I\u2019m probably going to miss out on something that really shouldn\u2019t be this difficult to get my hands on.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The one thing I wanted to commemorate the Braves\u2019 World Series victory was a copy of the November 3rd Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which I\u2019m assuming would have the Braves\u2019 victory on the cover.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want any hokey commemorative hats or shirts or a Dugout Mug, just a single copy of the local newspaper. 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