You're breaking the hearts of anybody who's ever had to work manual in their life.
Having labored in the vineyards of the journalism farm for more than three decades, I've always been of the mind that no one cares how many thorns we encounter or how much sweat falls from our brow.
Call 1-800-WAA-AAAH! Al Gore and Michael Moore know the number.
That one had me spewing all over my monitor too. The poor guy gets paid for sitting on his fat keister and he's complaining about what a hardship that is -- as though a ranking general has nothing better to do than accomodate the convenience of some leftist scribbler from Corpus Christi. As I recall, Clinton used to routinely keep everybody, from heads of state to reporters, waiting and waiting (while he attended to his genitourinary needs). He was consistently late for everything, but not one word of criticism issued from the mouths of people like Jimenez. Gee, I wonder why...