The Desperate Housewives are f*ckin' up my sh*t!!

So...I found myself sitting in traffic in Toluca Lake for like 20 minutes today, TWICE!!

Toluca lake, mind you, is a lot like the Mayberry of Hollywood, so this is unusual. Normally, I will leave my house and drive leisurely to my favorite morning coffee spot without a hint of traffic or annoyance.

This morning though, as I'm driving down Riverside I notice up ahead of me, a bunch of production trucks, generators, lights, and other TV making gew-gaws, lining the street in front of PRICILLA'S COFFEE. I am rolling peacefully along toward my coffee shop (not Pricilla's) which is nearby and I suddenly encounter a sea of red brake lights. I now can see up at the entrance to Pricilla's around 6 or 7 of Burbank's finest standing around eating donuts and sipping coffee near the set. One officer stands nonchalantly in the street with his hand up, stopping traffic in BOTH DIRECTIONS as his brother officers chat and nosh pastries nearby. I thought that I would be delayed for a moment or two since they weren't shooting in the street, but I was instead there for 20 MINUTES for no apparent reason! What the hell!? THEY ARE SHOOTING INSIDE mind you.

I finally got over to my coffee shop and found that it was packed! Everyone that normally goes to Pricilla's is now at my coffee shop. Interlopers! Not a seat in the place, inside or out. So, apparently it's not enough that I have to sit in traffic for 20 minutes, but now I also cannot sit and do my morning writing at my favorite coffee shop. I stand in line for about 10 minutes (it's normally like 3), and I ask, "What the hell is shooting over at Pricilla's?"
As you can guess from the title of this, it was in fact, Desperate Housewives. The coffee girl seems genuinely excited by this and tells me so, which annoys me, but I keep it to myself.
"Yeah, that's cool", I reply, biting my tongue.
Inside I'm thinking, "I hate that show. I really do. I don't understand why it's on, and I credit that show, whether or not they are responsible, for the term 'cougar'. Cougar annoys me, and that show annoys me. Seriously, why is it still on?! Also speaking of 'cougar', Courtney Cox's new show 'Cougar Town'. I haven't seen it, but give me a break, '40 is the new 20'?!? Really, do we need another show about people that don't want to act or look their age in this country. If I see another 48-year-old woman with her 14-year-old daughter in matching Kitson sweatsuits and they are talking about Facebook or Twitter or Lady GaGa, I will throw red paint on their $300 sweats like one of those PETA activists do to the women wearing furs. I swear I will!!"

On my way home I got stuck in traffic again for another 20 MINUTES, despite the fact that I took a different street. Housewives, do you really need to block up 3 streets to shoot INSIDE a coffee shop for the love of God!


I'm really hoping they are done shooting by the time my 5 o'clock coffee break time rolls around. I will really be bummed out if they are still there.
Also, I want my 50 minutes of wasted time back "Desperate Housewives", damn you!

Oy! The Desperate Housewives are f*ckin' up my sh*t!!