Life is like a a fews days in Farmville

You know that in a few days or hours, in some cases, you are going to cash in on some plants. Until that time, you just sit around waiting for the "click to harvest" button to come up. In the meantime, you can't buy any animals, buildings, or decorations. You just have to sit coinless until that paycheck comes in. You may feel broke for a time, but when you stop worrying, you realize there is money coming at the end of that unusually short growing season. Especially those strawberries. 4 hours? Come on. Who has time to check their farm every 4 hours to keep that little patch of pixels from withering?

I just want to reach that next level. If I get a few more experience points, my little yellow star will have a 7 in it. So, to get there, I suck up to a few people. I rake some leaves and chase some crows. I give Jim Rodenbeck a fig tree. If I could just buy a mailbox, I would be content. No...wait...I just realized I can buy a stone mailbox. I want that.