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Light bulbs---there is a reason I refuse to change them.

A bulb burned out above the computer my dad was working on. He unscrewed it and handed it to me. Even though changing light bulbs is not my job, I figured, how hard could it be to buy a light bulb?

I clutched that light bulb in my hand all day as I went from store to store looking for a match. I spent 30 minutes looking for one in Walmart. I just knew it had to be there somewhere. It wasn't. It wasn't at Ace Hardware either.

Walking down the light bulb aisle at Lowe's, a guy saw me clutching my light bulb and started laughing. He reached out and showed me what he was holding: THE SAME EXACT LIGHT BULB! Unbelievable.

Both of us started searching frantically. I think we were both worried there would only be one bulb left. But alas, there weren't any. The guy shook his head in defeat, "They don't have any at Walmart or Home Depot."

I know. "Don't bother looking at Target or Ace," I warned him as he walked away dejectedly. He told me he was going to order one off the Internet.

An employee gave me a light bulb that he claimed was the closest they had to the one I was looking for. Even though it wasn't the same, I bought it. I figured I'd looked long enough and frankly, I was tired of carrying around the light bulb.

I got home, elated to show everyone that I'd finally found the light bulb. My husband took one look at it and shook his head. "It's iridescent." (I don't even know what that means, but it's okay, Heather explained it to me.) He went and retrieved another light bulb and handed it to me. "Here, get one like this."

So I have a new light bulb to find now. The good news is that I get to carry around a different light bulb tomorrow.