When you just can't reach

When I was little, I remember a PSA that ran on TV. My brother will probably remember exactly what it was for, but a I remember is the tag line: "When you just can't reach."

As I recall, it showed a little girl reaching for something on top of a pillar that was just a little too high. Then these tall H.R. Pufnstuf-like guys came out, reached what she needed and gave it to her.

I suppose it is all about how people sometimes need help and I totally would like to credit this PSA for teaching me that lesson, even while my brother, Robert and I mocked it mercilessly.

I was thinking of this ad when I got to work today and needed tea bags and sugar. I managed to snag a few packets of sugar. But the tea was just out of reach, no matter how hard I stretched. It's not that they were high up; it was just that my chair couldn't get close enough.

I was able to get some in the second break room I went to, but come one. Give me a freaking break. No one should have to hunt caffeine early in the morning.