i was thwarted in my attempt to buy a decent loaf of bread today, and a chain reaction of frustrating incidents occurred as a result, and i almost had a tantrum/meltdown, however i aborted my intention to take the bread out into the backyard and stomp on it.
the situation:
i went to the local supermarket to buy a loaf of bread so i could have toast strips ("soldiers" as some call them) to dip into my soft boiled eggs for breakfast. i cut my toast into 6 strips (after buttering of course) which yields three strips for each egg (i have 2 eggs for breakfast). i can not eat soft boiled eggs without toast strips.
i selected a loaf after careful comparison, and at the counter, the stupid girl grabbed my loaf of bread half way along the loaf with a grip that was tight enough to deform the slices in the loaf !. she should have lifted the loaf from the plastic clamp rather than man handle my bread. i became irate and insisted that i go and get a substitute loaf because she damaged the loaf i intended to buy. so i had to settle for the second best looking loaf.
when i took it to the counter, she observed the rules i outlined as she scanned it, and i felt satisfied that my loaf was undamaged and left.
when i got home, i noticed that the bread had slumped under it's own weight so that the top crust had an invagination in it. it is hard to describe so i scribbled a crude picture of what i mean....
that threw me off balance as i had to calculate how i would get 6 identical strips out of any slice in a hurry because the eggs were 2 minutes into their cooking process before i discovered the fault (i always put the bread in the toaster 1 minute and 30 seconds before the eggs are finished cooking) . i very much dislike having asymmetrical toast, and it degrades the experience of breakfast significantly, but i had to begrudgingly wear it and hastily work out how i would cut it.
then when i took a slice out to put into the toaster, i discovered that it had a hole in it (a large empty bubble), so i then started to panic and lose my patience because i had only 1 minute to get the toast cooked and the schedule was now seriously out of kilter.
i then rummaged through the loaf rejecting each slice i saw (they all had large bubbles in them (too mush yeast i guess), and i threw each rejected slice on the floor of the kitchen because i was in a the beginning phases of a meltdown, and i was angrily and frantically searching for an an acceptable slice, and since none of them were acceptable, all the rejected slices were now on the floor, and so i had precluded myself from selecting the best slice of a bad bunch, and i just thought "wow!! ! i can not even have breakfast nowadays due to incompetence, so i was going to snatch all the slices off the floor and dump them outside and jump on them, and then i was going to hurl the eggs and water out of the saucepan down the back yard in a tantrum of disgust.
at the final moment, i snatched peace from the jaws of murderous rage, and i decided to cook the eggs for 3 minutes more so they were hard boiled, and just eat them by scooping out the yolks (after inserting a knob of butter into a knife slot i made in them).
it was a vastly inferior experience to the one i was aiming for, but at least i did not make a public spectacle of myself, because if i had "shot put" the eggs out of the saucepan together with the boiling water, they would have gone over the fence and possibly injured a neighbor.
it took me hours to calm down.