I might have to face the fact, I am some kind of freakish abnormality of society, when it comes to purchasing certain products.

The type of guy, who likes to get simple, well made-things, with universal purpose. The kind of fellow, who strangely enough, preffers to take a few steps out of his house, to go and get these things for himself. One may think there are certain locations out there, that could satisfy this strange desire. Locations that legends have spoken of for years. A place that some have called: the store.

I have comfirmed that these seemingly mystical places do still exist. But they do not nearly live up to the tales of legends.

My latest shopping frustration has been about a very simple little device. A most humble, but very universily usefull little gadget, wich can stupidly easy be mass produced in this day and age: a portable little, display, with an HDMI-input.

Just a little modest screen, that can be charged or plugged in with a usb-cable, that has a simple HDMI input. To use as a portable second screen for a laptop. Or as a spare display, in case a laptop display might break, and I need to use it somewhere away from home.

I live in a big capitol city, with loads of shopping centres, with several electronics stores. But nowhere can I find a simple portable display like that. Only fully fledged big displays to plug into your wall.

Its a task that a basic little tablet could easily do. But NOOOO they only build tablets with an HDMI OUT-put. There just don't seem to be any tablets with an HDMI IN-put, at least, nowhere in the stores near me.

It is such a ridiculously simple piece of tech I want, but people in stores look at me like I'm trying to explain rocket-science when I try to explain what I'm looking for.

Now lets take a simple mug. Like one you drink coffee out of. This one may get a little strange, but please bear with me, if you stuck with this stupid ramble this far.

But this summer, without realising, I caught a fever. It was a hot summer day, but I just felt really cold and had this weird craving, for a good nice mug, with some delightfull hot chocolate milk. And I wanted to drink it, juuuust right. I wanted to drink my hot coco, out of a nice big, thicc mug, with a big solid handle, to hold it with my hand.

But all of the kitchen ware stores, and other places that sell cups and mugs and pottery and stuff, only had these thin, fragile looking pieces of shit, with a tiny little handle you can only hold onto with two fingers, instead of a hand.

What the freaking fuck, world!?!? What the heck is wrong with y' all!! Why are simple things, that are just GOOD, a thing of the past!?!

Funilly enough, out of all places, I did finaly managed to find me a propper mug, way after my fever was gone though. But at least got me one to get nice and cozy with during the winter. And where do I finally find me a simply GOOD mug for me hot coco? In a stupid little gift-shop at a train-station...

Normal sized mug + teaspoon for scale, muddafukkahs!

I can go on and on about looking for a good smartphone. Just one like we all have nowadays. But with a super simple set of directional keys (or like a d-pad) and two basic buttons for navigation besides the touchscreen. Not a single bloody store out there that has it.

And then people go on, spouting all of this bullshit, that brick and mortar stores, the basic physical shops, are slowly dying, because people seem to be too lazy to get out of the house. Only wanting to shop online, or so people say.

To me, that's an absolute massive pile of horseshit, mate! I always try to go out and get myself the things I want. Supporting the local bussiness if I can. But how can I support the local bussiness if they simply don't give me the goods!