LImited items are so good!

Length of shower: 5 min.--Today I was thinking about the McRib sandwich at McDonalds and why it is so good.  I mean I love the McRib!  But why is it only around for a short period of time?  That sucks.  I want to be able to eat the sandwich I desire every time I peruse into any McDonalds, but I can't.  They only release it once every like 8 or 10 years.  Why do companies do that?  Why are certain things only for a "limited time"?  This is America!  This is the land of over indulgence and over eating and big cars and EBAY; shouldn't we be able to get anything at anytime?

Now I understand why things like candy canes and fireworks are only for a limited time...because they are tied to a holiday.  I also get the limited time offers that are tied to "while supplies last" type of deals, because that makes sense.  But other things aren't tied to a holiday or small supplies, like electronic sales, or like when Disney only releases certain movies to DVD every 10 or 20 years and then they go "back into the vault", wherever that is.  But maybe that's why all this is so good; because I can't have it all the time.  Look, I know that is the selling point but I mean maybe that is really, truly why it tastes or feels so good, because I can't have it all the time.

Like sex!  Sex is the ultimate "limited time offer" isn't it?  I mean you can't (or shouldn't) do it for like the first 20 years of your life and you know you will be having less of it in your old age (because you won't have the energy to get "up" for it) and so you get as much of it as you can while you can in the prime years of your life.  But even then it is sometimes hard to get.  Sometimes the in-laws are over or the baby needs attention or the dog is sick.  Or especially when you fight with your spouse and she/he withholds sex out of spite.  You of course end up apologizing for whatever happened, no matter if you were wrong or not, just so you can go back to having regular sex.  Or if you're single it is even harder to get because you have to work harder to get it.  You know how this goes: at least 3 dates and then rehashing all those old stories of yourselves so you can become just comfortable enough with each other to take off your clothes together in a small, very dark bedroom.   I mean single or not, after going through all that it BETTER be good, right?  And let's face it, most of the time sex is worth all of that.

Yea, "limited time offers" are all around us all the time.  I guess sometimes they just aren't advertised as plainly as the McRib, but that doesn't mean they aren't as good!  I guess we should just enjoy them more indulgently while the offer is out there so we don't miss them as much when they are gone.  From now on I will enjoy the "limited time offers" even more while those supplies last.