Missing the Sunday paper

We subscribe to the Sunday paper so we can get coupons and the television guide.  That is essentially the only reason we subscribe to it.  Every Sunday morning I walk down to the newspaper box, dragging the trash can behind me (trash pickup is early Monday morning) and leave the trashcan at the end of the driveway and then bring the newspaper back up to the house.  It’s not something I enjoy doing, but it needs to be done and my wife has asked me to make that part of my routine.  So I do it to make her happy.

It is very aggravating when I get down to the newspaper box to find that the Sunday paper is missing.  I don’t know if someone swiped it or if the delivery person didn’t deliver it; I just know that it isn’t there.  No coupons, no television guide.  I know that I can call the paper and complain and they will give me credit for the missing paper, but that still leaves us without the coupons and television guide, and the inconvenience of having to run to the store to pick up a copy if we really want it that badly.